Joe Arpaio Quotes

Political leaders will never take risks unless the people push them to take risks.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

I found that I not only tolerated taking risks, I loved it.

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

There's risk in everything that you do. It's up to you to measure those risks and do what you want to do.

However much risk we are taking, we can and probably should take more.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.