1,222 Quotes About Risk

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with weapons.I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.Never afraid of you.

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.