Risk Quotes - page 8

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if - as the war ends, or at least starts to end - if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there - Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it? (Rachel Maddow)
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. View quote
Che Guevara
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat-coward! View quote
Homer
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. View quote
Norm Coleman
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: He who wants everything must risk very little. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine. (Claudia Schiffer)
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. View quote
Victor Kiam
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. View quote
Victor Kiam
I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk – who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit. View quote
Cate Blanchett
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about. View quote
Ben Carson
Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk? View quote
Ben Carson
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk”, we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments. View quote
Ben Carson
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him. View quote
Peter Drucker
All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow. View quote
Peter Drucker
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. (René Descartes)
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be. View quote
Seymour Cray
In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness. View quote
Paul Goodman
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety. View quote
Allan Bloom