risks quotes

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

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

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‚The End Is Near,‘ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.