1,222 Quotes About Risk

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.