Theo Paphitis Quotes

I'm not a betting man.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

I'm not the kind of person to put all my eggs in one basket.

Don't be ashamed to play safe.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

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

An actor always goes to the safe side.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

As Secretary of Defense I have to be cautious and prudent.

We live in an age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

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

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'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don't want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

Life's too short to be super conservative but it's also too short to make it any shorter. I don't plan on dying early, but at the same time I don't plan on playing it so safe that I'll live to ninety.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Better safe than exsanguinated.