Ben Carson Quotes

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

You have to take risks.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

The concept of insurance is not to share risk but to avoid risk.

We always take acceptable risks in our society.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

We tend to ignore the high probability of small gains or losses and focus on big payoffs or disaster despite remote odds.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.