Top 495 Risks Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Risks Quotes from famous people such as James E. Burke, George McGovern, Phil Gingrey, Reggie Fils-Aime, Gillian Tans, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful comp

We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke
Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
George McGovern
The influx of families and unaccompanied children at the border poses many risks, including grave public health threats.
Phil Gingrey
We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.
Reggie Fils-Aime
My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn’t have thought of.
Gillian Tans
If you start worrying about risks, you might as well stay inside the womb.
Vijay Sethupathi
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain
Libras like to take risks!
Cardi B
New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.
Klaus Schwab
We aren’t afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.
Nancy Dubuc
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
Kunal Nayyar
Because SBI is so large, serving customers in India’s big cities and small rural villages alike, it has a pressing need for better tools and technology to monitor lending risks.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Adebayo Oke-Lawal is so talented. He takes risks to make his suits different.
Ncuti Gatwa
High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.
Drew Gilpin Faust
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
Newt Gingrich
‘Damage’ is about taking risks, stepping into new territory regardless of the outcome.
Mya
For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.
Glen Taylor
In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there… That’s the only way to discover you’re actually capable.
Emily Beecham
Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
Lindsay Lohan
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.
Louise Fresco
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
Ban Ki-moon
Be willing to take on career risks.
Debra L. Reed
You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.
Sally Hawkins
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United’s attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
Paul Scholes
In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives – with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.
Nina Easton
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
Ken Robinson
The culture of Booking.com has been very good for me because it’s a culture where you’re allowed to fail. When you think about taking risks, if it’s OK to fail, you actually do a lot more. And you learn a lot quicker.
Gillian Tans
I’ve evolved as a human being, and I’ve taken more risks. I’ve let go of judgment. I don’t know when the best stuff is coming – I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don’t think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.
Sophie B. Hawkins
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger
There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.
Robert F. Engle
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Stephen Hawking
Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
Andy Dunn
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
I used to be afraid of pain, didn’t take a lot of risks, especially in love. I’m not as afraid anymore. I’m more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.
Melody Beattie
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog’s life isn’t going to kill someone for gold teeth.
Alvin Adams
My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I’m not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
Mark Kelly
The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.
Connie Britton
Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.
Ryan Eggold
In order to do something really good, you have to take risks – that’s what I do.
Juergen Teller
I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world.
Steve Jurvetson
I’m in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it’s with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it’s to stay awake, either way it’s much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
Karen O
I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its ‘Characters welcome’ tag.
Tim DeKay
Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls ‘black swans’ -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
Emily Chang
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‘The End Is Near,’ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Robert Kiyosaki
It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.
Urjit Patel
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There’s nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
Gregg Easterbrook
Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we’re going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
Barry Silbert
It is not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It is the manager’s job to make it safe to take them.
Edwin Catmull
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks.
Robert Dallek
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has posed significant and often disproportionate risks to Central Virginia seniors and their families.
Abigail Spanberger
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one’s own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.
Chris Claremont
You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.
Adena Friedman
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
Ben Bernanke
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement – only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
Nancy Gibbs
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 platitudes.
Che Guevara
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Margaret J. Wheatley
The Internet has allowed a lot of access – people feel entitled to change the ending of games, for example. So there are a lot more voices coming at you all the time, which I think has its effect on creative decision making and possibly makes people more afraid to take risks.
Tim Schafer