We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
— Maxwell Maltz
Perspective Calculated Risk quotations
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Nobody can really guarantee the future.
The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.
You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage.
.. between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries.
They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
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.
You have to take calculated risks in life.
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew.
I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
Take calculated risks.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
A chance is what you take before you think about it.
A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!
Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.