It’s not that the risk isn’t worth the reward, it’s that the reward isn’t worth as much as another reward, which also has a lesser risk.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve...

We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

And experience shows if you get the animal side right, one substantially reduces the risk of a human pandemic,

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was...

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europe.

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

Behind every no entry sign there’s a door.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

When you’re putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you’re dramatically increasing the risk, and at some point the benefits become speculation.

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.

La prévoyance commence lorsque nous acceptons que nous sommes maintenant arrivés à créés une civilisation du risque.

Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same– the “Status que” looks more appealing, especially when we think that somehow we are benefiting. accordingly, incumbency with all its faults is generally more...

There are 20 ways to rip off a company at least. Obviously better governance standards reduce that risk.

The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you...

risk is everywhere and we all do take risk everyday, knowingly or unknowingly.Ordinary risk produces ordinary men and extraordinary risk equals extraordinary men. The unique line of boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary is...

There’s just not enough of a risk premium built into the longer end of the curve.

We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don’t trust and won’t risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry...

I think it’s logical. Most of the federally-regulated dams tend to be fairly large dams that pose significant risk if there is a failure.

…we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.

I’m tempted by AOL here, but I don’t have it in the fund I manage. The risk level is very high.

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average.

Yeah, in our case, beating a Nebraska does scare people off, especially if you try to get someone to come to your place. Teams count wins. And normally when you play at home you look...

Our key takeaway from Toyota and Nissan presentations is that there may be more risk to our GM and Ford market share assumptions than previously thought.

The risk is for a moderate downward revision.

Who says there’s just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest – all slippery water, unmarked?

I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to...

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

The secret of the GPL was taking a small quantum of risk and putting it on the distributors, … The total risk could be brought close to zero.

There’s sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren’t being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!

The potential here is significant. The NCAA is at some risk.

No one who goes to prison is entirely without some risk. But should they walk away, they are unlikely to do any harm or damage. And, frankly, almost all of them are caught within a...

There’s much more downside risk in the stock between now and Thanksgiving, and unless Q4 is blowout, at least until Valentine’s Day [when the full allotment of shares is eligible for sale],

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun...

They did leave something for tomorrow. With the adrenaline going tomorrow, there?s no risk of them falling off these, and there?s a good chance they can squeeze out a little more.

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

The word ‘risk’ derives from the early Italian risicare, which means ‘to dare’. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free...

They want to move to a state where they’re taking a view of their risk … on an ongoing basis, supported by technology. Today, you hear them talking about too much manual intervention. They want...

I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she’d done penance for stories – stories that I’ll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She’d...

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live...

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.’Imagine, I didn’t even know I could do this. That’s some encouragement that i’mon the...

The only risk we run, … is by doing nothing.

We understand that there is a certain amount of risk in this, … But, it’s a risk that, morally speaking, it’s riskier not to take.

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or...