Thomas Peterffy Quotes

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

People want security in this insecure world.

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.