"A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future."
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"Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them."
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"Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him."
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"Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk."
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"I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that."
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"First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks."
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"The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk."
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"Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden."
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"An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there."
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"'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'"
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"You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not."
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"To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death."
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"All inquiries carry with them some element of risk."
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"All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions."
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"Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion."
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"Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs."
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"If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk."
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"It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly."
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"'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'"
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"Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about."
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