People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. — Peter Drucker
Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider. — Platen
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan
If you don't risk anything you risk everything — Mark Zuckerberg
Only by great risks can great results be achieved. — Xerxes I
Short Calculated Risk Quotes
Risk equals reward; if you don’t take risks, you won’t get rewards. — Nirmal Purja
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams. — Herb Brooks
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. — Alberto Salazar
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. — Alvin Toffler
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. — Geena Davis
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do. — Reid Hoffman
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. — Warren Buffett
You’ve got to take risks to be a game changer. — Tom Bilyeu
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
Calculated Risk Image Quotes
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
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
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell. — Shams Tabrizi
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? — Oscar Wilde
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. — Taiichi Ohno
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed. — Fridtjof Nansen
Business Risk Quotes
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
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
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
Take the risk or lose the chance.
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
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
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
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
High Risk Quotes
Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing. — Pat LaFontaine
Assessing sustainability risks requires that investors have access to consistent, high-quality, and material public information. — Larry Fink
If you think Treasuries have no risk and high yield bonds have risk, the yield spread is there to compensate for the bearing of that incremental risk. The question is whether it is adequate. — Howard Marks
Take risks and conquer your fears.
There isn’t much debate on the downsides of consumption of animal protein. Study after study has demonstrated that heavily animal-based diets are associated with high cardiovascular mortality and cancer risk. — David Sinclair
Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence. — Sam Altman
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Triglyceride levels affect cholesterol size and risk. Elevated triglycerides with high insulin increase the danger of cholesterol by reducing its size, making it more risky for cardiovascular health. — Gary Brecka
To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security. — Harry Markowitz
Investment risk comes primarily from too high prices, and too high prices often come from excessive optimism and inadequate skepticism and risk aversion. — Howard S. Marks
Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
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
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. — Unknown
We've climbed in 60 to 75 kilometer an hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have. — Nirmal Purja
If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. — Jessica Watson
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. — Niccolo Machiavelli
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. — Henry Ford II
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. — Andre Malraux
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. — Maxwell Maltz
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. — Rachel Carson
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation. — Ehud Barak
Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks. — Unknown
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. — William Hurt
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren Earl Burger
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security. — Yitzhak Rabin
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. — Warren E. Burger
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. — David Einhorn
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
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework. — Georgette Mosbacher
You have to take calculated risks in life. — Anthony Scaramucci
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. — Bill Walsh
You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough. — Ernie Els
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. — Tony Blair
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. — George S. Patton
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company. — Ray Kroc
Take calculated risks. — George S. Patton
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. — Charles Duhigg
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 — Craig Elliott
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. — Edmund H. North
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! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. — Dennis Overbye
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences. — Celia Green
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. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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. — Maxwell Maltz
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile. — Michael J. Massimino
You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning. — Paula Deen
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. — Richard Branson
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. — Henry Ford
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. — Maxwell Maltz
I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it. — Hillary Clinton
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. — Eddie Perez
Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds. — Po Bronson
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