Alastair Wood Quotes

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

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.

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.

People are used to dealing with risk.

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?'

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.

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.

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

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.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

There is no elimination of all risks.

We always take acceptable risks in our society.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

People say I take too many risks. But the fact is, there is risk involved in every shot. You can get out trying to defend a ball as well.

The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.

Take calculated risks and limit your downside.

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

We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.