Risk Quotes

"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens—usually" "Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster and not many people can keep their balance on it " "To make money in this game, you have to trust your gut." "A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfactory, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short." "In the world of money, you act on what you don't know." "Where there’s money on the line, you can’t trust anyone blindly." "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty" "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery" "You can turn your back on a person but never turn your back on a drug, especially when it’s waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye" "Delay always breeds danger." "It's no small thing to take the risk of writing for a living." "Great harm proceeds from too much faith " "Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters." "You have to spend a lot to make a lot" "You cannot make a living by predicting things; only by betting" "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things" "To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger." "Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse." "The most dangerous moment for a startup is when you become successful, because then you stop doing the things that made you successful in the first place" "Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke"