risk Quotes

When in doubt, don't.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I'm concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people's lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.