2/2/11

Risk Quotes

Even being right three or four times out of 10


 should yield a person a fortune


 if they have the sense to cut losses quickly.


 


Bernard Baruch


 


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable,


than risk being happy.


 


Robert Anthony


 


Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.


 


Herodotus (485 BC - 425 BC)


 


He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill,


but he will do very few things.


 


George Savile (1633-95)


Marquis of Halifax, English politician and essayist


 


I never gamble.


 


J.P. Morgan (1837 – 1913) financier


 


The noisome weeds, that without profit,


suck the soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.


 


William Shakespeare (King Richard II)


 


The ultimate measure of a man


is not where he stands in moments of comfort,


but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.


 


Martin Luther King, Jr.


 


The struggle of humanity against tyranny


is the struggle of memory against forgetting.


 


Unknown


 


The men who succeed best in public life


are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.


 


James Garfield, 20th U.S. president


 


You pay your money, you take your chances.


 


Eight Ball Deluxe


A pinball machine I played in college


 

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