Calculated Quotes

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.