Risk Quotes - Page 27

• Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, People, Needs

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• I'll take any risk there is.

  Jeremy Renner

  "Jeremy Renner Talks James Gray’s LOW LIFE; Says Steve McQueen Biopic Will Focus More on Personal Aspect than Stunts". collider.com. December 1, 2011.

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• The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

  Susan Rice

  Korea, Add, Nuclear

  "Interview with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2009.

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• No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, Space, Astronaut

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Serious Illness, Entrepreneur

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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• Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Dream, Jobs, Apples

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn't bestowed on us from Washington. It comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Class, People

  Marco Rubio's Reply Speech to Barack Obama's State of The Union Address, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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• At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Thinking, World

  "Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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• Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Fall, Commitment, Hands

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2012.

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• Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Ambition, Men, Feet

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• There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

  Sean William Scott

  Couple, Thinking, Film

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• It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

  Ayrton Senna

  Lucky, Serious, Happens

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• All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Military, Taken

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• I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

  Shakira

  Falling In Love, Fall, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

  Simon Sinek

  Acceptance, Pigs, Different

  "Failure Is An Option: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Preparation

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Doors, Personality, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Gun, Car, Cerberus

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• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

  John Sununu

  Running, Winning, Effort

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• Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

  James Surowiecki

  Defense, Rewards, Able

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• Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

  James Surowiecki

  Choices, Political, Prime

  "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

  James Surowiecki

  Cost, Done, Pumps

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  David Suzuki

  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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