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.

If we aren’t willing to do whatever is required,” he said finally, “then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

As we’re talking today we haven’t seen any diversions, but we’re getting near to that point where the risk is much greater. As you get closer to July, you’ll have customers who remember what happened...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all – the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all… You see it’s so immensely complicated. It...

Because the rates we collect fall far short of the risk we assume, it is sad but true that Texas coast can no longer afford itself.

It’s a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there’s a theory – sometimes it’s better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Smartass Disciple: Why men don’t ready yet to join the intergalactic confederation?Master of Stupidity: Men could make them laugh to death. It’d be too risky for them.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

I don’t want to put any farmers at risk under the next farm bill. I want to do everything we possibly can to make sure we don’t lose another case that is considered trade-distorting by...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Considering the risk of the dollar’s fall, they may buy U.S. bonds temporarily, but they will also be quick to sell.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

could be at risk by a penny or two if sales remained weaker than expected.

There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

Yields have risen to levels where buyers looking for yields are willing to take a risk and buy.

Grow or Die – Don’t let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.

Ebola virus put humanity at a great risk. We must act now and together to prevent further crisis.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

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.

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.

We see the world as less random than it actually is.

By focusing more clearly on the risk factors that could lead to serious harm, we will have a system that is fairer for patients and more proportionate for doctors while still protecting children’s interests,

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to “have skin in the game” and take the payout in stock that he would agree to...

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

It’s nothing. It’s a storm in a teacup, … There is no risk to safety.

The conditions we’ve set up aren’t much of a risk to him.

You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius.

Why take the risk? All you need is one person to be offended. Some people don’t want to be reminded of the incident.

You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising...

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at...

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

When the mind is attacked, the whole of you is at risk

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.

I’m giving you what I can give you, and I’m telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it’s worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it’s...

The biggest risk to the Packers was no salary cap.

I describe the current farm bill as perhaps the most high-risk approach we could take for our nation’s farmers and ranchers in the future, … Some have expressed concern about giving up what is considered...

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.

I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.

No one was being rewarded for taking risk.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure

Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.