It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.
When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.
When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.
If I will do a movie in the future, I will take it up only when I'm 100 percent sure about it.
Assume nothing, question everything.
No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.
No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.
If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.
I'm always careful what clients I take.
Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.
The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.
Diplomacy: the art of jumping into troubled waters without making a splash.
