With some businesses, you cannot avoid risk, and sometimes you do not succeed. — Bernard Arnault
Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks
An investment business has certain risks, and your job as an investor is not to eliminate all risks but to manage and minimize them. — Naved Abdali
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. — Ray Kroc
Risk, things can happen, worry about permanent loss — Howard Marks
Risk is an essential element in the quest for capital gain. Don’t be dismayed by a loss. Recognise it as one of your costs on the way to a net gain. — Thomas Phelps
In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take. —
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. — Warren Buffett
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker
It's important to recognize that the riskiness of investing comes only partly from the things you invest in. A lot of the risk comes from the behavior of the participants. — Howard Marks
Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets — Steve Blank
Investing without a clear understanding of associated risk is like a child is playing with fire. Risk assets are called risk assets for a reason. — Naved Abdali
The word risk means different things to different people. Some people say risk. Some people say opportunity. — Changpeng Zhao
If you don't risk anything you risk everything — Mark Zuckerberg
Betting your future on old-line companies is riskier than joining with entrepreneurs and startups. — Cathie Wood
Recognizing risk, investors paying it too little heed — Howard Marks
Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
Risk control, loss avoidance, risk avoidance — Howard Marks
Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James Burke
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James E. Burke
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Motivational Business Risk Quotes
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. — Marissa Mayer
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ronald Osborne
Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. — Eliot Wigginton
Business Risk Management Quotes
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon
If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn
Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late. — Lee Iacocca
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. — Daniel Kahneman
I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers. — Richard Thaler
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good. — Larry Rosenberg
Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task — Richard Branson
Take Risk In Business Quotes
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by. — Clayton Christensen
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so. — Alan Greenspan
Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards. — Donald Trump
Take the risk or lose the chance.
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. — Hunter S. Thompson
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. — Bill Gates
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No! — Jack Ma
Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again. — Mitt Romney
I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world. — Mark Suster
We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk. — Wilbur Ross
Risk Quotes
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time — William Shakespeare
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
Western culture is what is at risk from immigration from the Middle East. — Milo Yiannopoulos
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. — Bob Marley
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. — Jean Piaget
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. — John Wooden
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. — Winston Churchill
After the last financial crisis, the banks more than doubled their capital and liquidity and they’re far more aware and better at managing the risks they’re taking. — Jerome Powell
Many of the great financial disasters we’ve seen have been failures to foresee and manage risk. — Howard S. Marks
Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. — Robert Kiyosaki
Take risks and conquer your fears.
I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it. — Yvon Chouinard
In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error. — John G. Stumpf
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science. — Seth Klarman
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased. — Noam Chomsky
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. — Bernie Sanders
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’. — Malcolm Gladwell
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones. — Nouriel Roubini
Market Risk Quotes
All past declines look like an opportunity, all future declines look like a risk. — Morgan Housel
To beat the market, focus on investments well within your knowledge and ability to evaluate, your 'circle of competence'. — Edward O. Thorp
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The benefit of short sellers to the markets is they’re sort of the canary in the coal mine...They are the early warning signal about a problem in the business, a problem in the capital markets. — Bill Ackman
Risk arises when markets go so high that prices imply losses rather than the potential rewards they should. — Howard S. Marks
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. — Brian Halligan
I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett
In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times. — Harry Markowitz
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. — Bernard Madoff
Risk Management Quotes
Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. — Taiichi Ohno
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special — W. Edwards Deming
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem. — Russell L. Ackoff
Do not assume that what investors call momentum, a long streak of either rising or falling prices, will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will. — Edward O. Thorp
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. — American Proverbs
Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors. — Edward O. Thorp
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa
Risk Taking Quotes
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen
Great things are achieved only when we take great risks. — Frederick the Great
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. — Paulo Coelho
What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne
I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing. — Eartha Kitt
Risque Quotes
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. — Mae West
Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. — Mae West
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods. — Jon Jones
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. — Camille Paglia
I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this. — Kelly Clarkson
I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years. — Holly Valance
I was into David Bowie. I attracted long hair and earrings when it was quite a risque thing to do in Dublin. We didn't have the liberation that America and Britain in the '60s but I did always look to England and America, mainly because of the music that came from there. — Gavin Friday
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom
I think that the business about volatility being risk is a con job which was perpetrated primarily because volatility is machinable. — Howard Marks
Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. — Michael Bloomberg
While boards are better today than they were a decade ago, they continue to be far from optimal. Many directors depend on the income they receive from serving on boards, and as a result are reluctant to challenge management on strategy, risk-taking, or compensation. Often, they are business, social, and or charitable connections among the directors that reduce their independence or willingness to speak-up. Many CEOs prefer directors with no experience in a company’s principal lines of business because it makes it more difficult for them to challenge the CEO. — Bill Ackman
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. — Neil Postman
Our confidence in Tesla has grown as we've done research on what ride-sharing potentially could add. It could limit the risks significantly, it's a much more profitable business than electric vehicles. — Cathie Wood
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. —
You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business. — Howard Lyman
Take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen. — Gus Grissom
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk. — Chris Hadfield
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant
Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then. — Nicholas Stern
We don’t like failures. We try to avoid them. That is why with many of our products, we make a limited number. We do not put the entire company at risk by introducing all new products all the time. In any given year, in fact, only 15% of our business comes from the new; the rest comes from traditional, proven products – the classics. — Bernard Arnault
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. — Chris Hadfield
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency. — Wayne White
I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one. — Mellody Hobson
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. — Katie Couric
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage. — Jamie Dimon
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. — James Russell Lowell
The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line. — Sam Zell
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. — Warren Buffett
For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process. — Robert Kiyosaki
Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom. — Robert Kiyosaki
Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status quo. That fear is disabling, One of the things we need to do as business leaders is build and nurture cultures that encourage responsible risk taking so making mistakes is OK. — Josh Linkner
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. — Ulrich Beck
The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones. — Theo Paphitis
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