Quotes about risk are insightful expressions that highlight the importance and potential consequences of taking chances. These quotes emphasize the significance of stepping outside one's comfort zone and embracing uncertainty. They often remind us that risk can lead to great rewards and personal growth, encouraging us to take calculated risks in our lives and pursue our aspirations with courage and determination.
Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks
If you don't risk anything you risk everything — Mark Zuckerberg
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
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. — Warren Buffett
Risk, things can happen, worry about permanent loss — Howard Marks
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. — Denis Waitley
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams. — Herb Brooks
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. — Walter Scott
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear. — Tamera Alexander
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. — Ayn Rand
I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love. — Cameron Dokey
Take risks and conquer your fears.
To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position. — James Davison Hunter
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. — Carolyn Heilbrun
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. — Theodore Roosevelt
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. — John W. Gardner
Calculated Risk Quotes
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
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
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. — George S. Patton
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. — Dean Alfange
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan
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
If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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
No Risk Quotes
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. — Ron Paul
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense. — Allen Ginsberg
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. — Chuck Yeager
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 - if you win, you will be happy. If you lose, you will be wise.
Be honest: Would you be as successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried about being liked. — Tim Grover
There is no risk-free path for monetary policy. —
I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking. — Nicola Sturgeon
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens
Take 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
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
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
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later .
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
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
Without Risk Quotes
You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it. — Paul Heyman
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. — Annie Jacobsen
To live without risk is to risk not living. — Pope Pius XII
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. — Vladimir Horowitz
No investment is without risks, and no opportunity is guaranteed. Nothing is certain. And if somebody claims it, stay away from that person. — Naved Abdali
Where's the fun without a bit of risk? — J. K. Rowling
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love. — Grantly Dick-Read
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we're making progress without running the risk of failure. — James Clear
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma. — Robert Winston
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk; but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury. — Karl Popper
Risk Taking Quotes
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
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. — Jim Harrison
...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures. — Angela Merkel
Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it. — Gene Cernan
Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all. — Mark Zuckerberg
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — Claude Bissell
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
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
Risk Management Quotes
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
Was talking to a pension fund manager. He said it’s risky to NOT be invested in Bitcoin. Things are changing. — Samson Mow
In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take. —
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
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
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. —
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates
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
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
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
Worth The Risk Quotes
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E. E. cummings
Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end. — Sheila Jackson Lee
It doesn’t pay to push the other party to their absolute limit. A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up. — Edward O. Thorp
A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up. — Edward O. Thorp
We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? — Marie Colvin
Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights. — Sarah Beeny
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. — Shirley Hufstedler
Risk And Success Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
You're never going to see any success if you don't take risks with your time and money. Losing money is a part of the process. It's your real-life tuition. — Jaspreet Singh
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it. — Chamath Palihapitiya
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres
My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk
The key to success is having the courage to take risks and not be afraid of failure. — Joe Rogan
This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov
Chance And Risk Quotes
I can say that the risk-benefit ratio for those 18 and below doesn't justify vaccines and there's a pretty good chance that it doesn't justify vaccination in these very young adults. — Robert W. Malone
Don’t listen to others, You need to take chances and you need to take the risk sometimes in order to make things happen for yourself. — Nirmal Purja
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution. — Russell L. Ackoff
Research shows that when people get less than 7 hours of sleep per night, their chance of catching a cold triples, they report as much as 30% lower rates of wellbeing, risk of obesity soars, and they have less control over their hunger urges. — Dan Buettner
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances. — Patrick Warburton
Take risks, take chances, and never be afraid to fail—it’s part of life. — Joe Rogan
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. — Walter Anderson
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
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
If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice? — Tyron Woodley
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
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
Financial Risk Quotes
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
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
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
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat
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
Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking. — Alfred Adler
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. — Alexander The Great
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. — Manuel Neuer
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer
A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary? — Niki Lauda
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. — Bell Hooks
In Conclusion
These quotes also remind us to carefully assess the potential risks involved in any endeavor. They caution against reckless behavior and impulsive decision-making, instead encouraging us to weigh the potential benefits against the potential consequences before taking action. Quotes about risk serve as a reminder that while risk-taking can be rewarding, it is essential to balance ambition with careful consideration to increase the chances of success and minimize potential setbacks.
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