Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
Mark CubanIt is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers.
Ian McCartneyExcessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Luc De VauvanarguesThey [governing bodies] have to do something, otherwise more and more referees will be forced out of the game. [after the retirement of Anders Frisk]
Urs MeierTo be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold McMillanThe only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott AdamsThere is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William FaulknerHe who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
QuevedoDuring the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
Baroness KingsmillSome pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.
David WinnickPeople are talking about the move being a risk but I know what Andy Farrell is about. I know my attitude and record. If I was a betting man I would back myself.
Andy FarrellThat's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa AltherI went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
Bo GritzDecision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul TillichI've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed, and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore, I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
MadonnaGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks
HerodotusAt the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled [idea of happiness]
Brenda BlethynMany a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J B Priestley'With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.'
Britney Spears'Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it long, it's too risky. You get a sense of it then you look away.'
Jerry SeinfieldWhen we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
Richard CormanThe trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica JongRisk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine MansfieldI have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth AngerLet me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall SmithDuring the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren KierkegaardA woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. (Le deuxieme sexe)
Simone De BeauvoirWe Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
Lyndon JohnsonThe most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
Richard Brinsley SheridanTo introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac AsimovIf I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Samuel JohnsonOur lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter AndersonWho gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar ChavezHere are a list of Quotes from the delightful Northern Irish Comedian Danny McCrossan
Even the most powerful lie detector invented couldn’t drag a secret out of a woman, however, women rarely have lunch with lie detectors… - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian
See women need to talk because they feel like they have to have adequate levels of communication in order to sustain a healthy and open relationship, whereas men are only driven to speak because of matters beyond their control, like not being able to find clean socks. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
In Pagan times, uninspired people made sacrifices at the altar, and today, thanks to marraige, many still do. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
When women are bored they do the usual things, they eat, they go shopping, they neurotically judge the looks of other women, but men, men invade another country! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Anything that I’ve ever done that ended up worthwhile, initially scared me to death. Wether it was walking out on stage for that very first time, or asking a girl to include me in her plans for the future, but you know what, You have to risk everything sometimes or you risk even more. It’s not the challenges we face that define us, it’s the actions we take. - Danny McCrossan -Northern irish Comedian.
Everyone had big plans for me when I was younger, it was a cliche “Danny can do anything he wants to do” So I did the only thing I ever thought was worthwhile, bring laughter into the world. How I came to been seen as somewhat of a dissapointment to all those people who had made plans for me, well that still makes me chuckle. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
You learn alot in your teenage years, for instance I learned that if you’re ever being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a little tunnel, then onto a mini seesaw and then jump through a ring of fire, they’ve trained for that y’see. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Asking people in Northern Ireland what they think of politics is like asking the Jews what they think of Hitler. - Danny MCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
There are too many warnings on packaging these days - defrost before eating - Use as directed - I mean, what’s next, you buy a packet of condoms, warning - may contain nuts! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I say don’t conform, don’t allow yourself to be pigeon holed, it’s no good for the soul, and the pigeon doesn’t enjoy it either. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I remember how nervous I was my very first gig and I remember when I walked out on stage and spoke those words, how the audience laughed and laughed. I swore, there and then, that one day I would have my revenge. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
The sign said “This door to remain closed at all times” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Danny McCrossanLet us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore RooseveltAt the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che GuavaraAnd the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais NinOften the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell MaltzThe world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
Paulo CoelhoTake calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George PattonOne should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Jean De La BruyereEvery noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
MetastasioOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T S EliotPeople who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter F DruckerAnyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Vaclav HavelMost people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
Philip Andrew AdamsThe moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate CapshawDevout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole FranceCosts merely register competing attractions. (Risk, Uncertainty and Profit)
Frank H Knight
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