Risks Quotes

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.