Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

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

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 need to learn to live with more risk.

There is no elimination of all risks.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

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

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

Risk is not a dirty word.

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.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

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

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.

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.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

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.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.