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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I’ll miss the present.

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

One thing is evident looking at the different bank fees and rates. They maximize revenue and minimize risk, and that’s what the institutions are geared toward, that’s what they’re in business for, like it or...

My mom is all about risk vs. reward. So for example, if I were to go out on a date and have unprotected sex, the risk/reward would be possible STD for me vs. possible grandchild...

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I mean you’re cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body?

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a...

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

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...

Creative people who can’t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

If you’re going to love someone or something then don’t be a slow leaking faucet—-be a hurricane.

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...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

As we grow older I always think, why didn’t I do more when I was young, why didn’t I risk more?

When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave. Yet, when you stop being...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Dreaming is risky. While only some dreams can put you at physical risk, all dreams require that you take an emotional risk. By their nature, dreams create a gap between your present reality and the...

Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.

The markets are telling you that more traders are starting to see a greater risk that a default scenario could happen sooner in time than later. You cannot deny there is a pattern here.

As someone who craves the fetal position, I empathize with this sentiment. I’m just so glad I took the risk so early on in life.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

While we believe the transition to Intel remains a risk, so far the impact has been negligible. We believe Mac momentum will likely carry into the December quarter.

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a ‘fair’ reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don’t listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let...

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.

Have nuts and be nuts.

It’s too risky to take no risks at all

Exxon Mobil should be a core holding for long-term investors seeking superior risk-adjusted return.

Perhaps one of the reasons I’ve avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.