Risk Quotes

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.
Mohamed ElBaradei

Long, Same, Others

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
Peter Guber

Strength, Deep, Express

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey

Small, Able, Ideas

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen

Life, Women, Real

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
Ulrich Beck

Thought, Said, Terrorism

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
Chaz Bono

Everything, Thought, Why

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
Ajay Devgan

Enjoy, Scared, Performing

Life is a risk.
Carmelo Anthony

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
Dean Inge

Faith, Ourselves, Attraction

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
Emanuel Celler

Life, Challenge, Public

We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
Karen Mills

Time, Government, Same

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
Karen Mills

Health, Care, Small

We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
Karen Mills

Able, Act, Percent

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
Lisa Edelstein

Life, Children, Parents

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
Ruud Gullit

Time, Big, Wrong

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
Anatoli Boukreev

Hope, Learned, Others

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
Joe Murray

Time, Good, Bad

When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.
Tory Burch

Said, Big, Started

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
Cheryl Hines

Women, Heart, Learn

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
Bob Ney

Single, Put, Personal

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
James Purefoy

Important, Old, While

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Jerry Costello

Women, Men, Often

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.
Al Unser

Good, Strong, Enough

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem

Die, Boredom, Dying

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.
Slash

Word, Existence, Vocabulary

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
John Corbett

Tired, Bad, Why

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
Peter Diamandis

Government, Big, Company

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Peter Diamandis

Purpose, Worth, Mission

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
Judy Biggert

Energy, Natural, Continue

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
David Remnick

Work, Serious, High

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