Risk Acceptance Quotes

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

Injuries are part of the job.

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.'

You just can't think of safe options always. You have to accept challenges head on.

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed.

We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

I've always been very competitive, and a part of that is pushing your boundaries - taking a risk and being able to live with the loss that comes with taking a risk.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk.

You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

It's hard to take people seriously who say you're totally irresponsible if you go out and climb mountains when you have kids, because they clearly don't understand the circumstances. You can't impose your own acceptance of risk on other people - that's not fair.