"It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
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"The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all."
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"Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember."
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"If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’."
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"The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world."
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"I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk."
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"[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands."
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"Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief."
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"All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow."
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"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."
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"Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management."
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"Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return."
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"Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way."
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"Take the risk of thinking for yourself"
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"If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom."
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"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed."
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"If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all."
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"How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?"
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