Bob Buckhorn Quotes

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

Security and safety are very important for us.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

The civil service are risk averse.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

No risk that is preventable is acceptable.

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?'

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

In business, you try to minimise risk.

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.