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Risks Quotes
Most Famous Risks Quotes of All Time!
Taking a risk, according to this collection, often starts with refusing to imitate anyone else and choosing your own path instead, even when it's uncomfortable. That same nerve shows up in the pursuit of peace, where risk becomes a moral necessity rather than a gamble, a theme close to our Life collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heart
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
- Opportunity
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
- Because
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
- Humanity
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
- Environmental
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Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
- People
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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
- Way
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In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
- Agriculture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.
In business, that willingness to bet on unproven technical ideas is often what separates real innovation from safe imitation. Explore more on staying bold in our Business quotes.