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We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).
It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.
Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.
When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.
Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
I had to fight those type of fights which were high risk, low reward and at the start, I never could get the fights I really wanted.
I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.
The Climate Risk Managers can be trained in the science and art of managing uncertain rainfall patterns leading to drought or flood.
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very negative.
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.
Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong
It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.