John R. Allen Quotes

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

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

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

The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.

When something looks really risky from the outside, what people are doing on the inside - they're not professional risk takers. But they're probably professional risk mitigators.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

The civil service are risk averse.

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

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

In business, you try to minimise risk.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

There is no elimination of all risks.

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

Our risk systems and processes - we keep investing and improving them.

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

The best approach to risk is to identify and manage it.

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

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?'

The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?

Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.