Jodi Picoult Quotes

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

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

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

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

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.

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.

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

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.

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

The concept of insurance is not to share risk but to avoid risk.

We always take acceptable risks in our society.

We respond to the unknown by trying to retreat from it, or trying to comprehend it, or trying to control it. The first approach is evident in longings for return to a simpler "risk-free" life that never was. The second is reflected in the fantasy of synoptic risk assessment: Measure the requisite probabilities and trade-offs, calculate the social risk-benefit function, and the common good will have been defined. The third approach is in the tradition of professional engineering. It serves us well but, as engineers have been among the first to point out, has met its match and more in the complex social problems it increasingly is called upon to address.

Government is averse to taking risk. Innovation and digital technology is all about risk taking.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

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.

People are used to dealing with risk.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

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

Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.

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.