Life without risk is a life that is benign and sterile.

Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to...

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

When you have a defined contribution, it puts more of the risk onto the recipient, … If insurance costs go up, that means that your coverage is affected.

I’m a risk taker and I’ve always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

…the ratings agencies’ problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others … Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk. Unless we are genuinely aware, we calculate the danger arising from our own...

Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Ah, Walker—if I could explain all of humanity’s foibles, I’d be a rich man indeed, at least as far as money goes. I believe people are like that because of fear. They fear being loved...

The software industry once had the keys to the kingdom. But buyers are becoming more sophisticated. The software industry should share in the risk instead of running and gunning.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

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.

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.

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

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.