I’ve made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one – I would say they tie. It’s either when I didn’t move fast enough on something, or I didn’t take a big enough risk. – Ginni Rometty
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites. – Gary Hamel
Well you know, it’s true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! – Daniel Pinkwater
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible. – David Green
I don’t think I’m ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don’t know how I would fit into a catsuit. – Mamie Gummer
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don’t pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we’re alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk. – Parker Palmer
From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we’re gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We’re willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems. – Carl Safina
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name. – Daniel L. Doctoroff
Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs. – Mike Rounds
There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. – Drew Barrymore
I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. – Maria Bartiromo
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you. – Garth Risk Hallberg
Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch – emergencies, but no famines. – Meles Zenawi
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. – Evgeny Morozov
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them. – Charles Francis Richter
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There’s the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. – Emily Mortimer
Well, when you’re trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk. – Michael Eisner
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. – David R. Brower
Well, the studios don’t really want to take those risks right off the bat. They’ll take the risk after they’ve seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper. – Nia Long
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. – Eula Biss
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers. – Elizabeth Blackburn
Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night. – Florence Nightingale
I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That’s why they’re willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body. – Chaz Bono
You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it. – Michael Hintze
There’s always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him? – Francois Hollande
A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it’s like making a casserole. There’s a flurry of activity to begin with; then it’s about leaving it to rest. – Paul Hollywood
