Timothy Geithner Quotes

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

Our Achilles heel is that we haven’t been able to successfully explain why it’s fair to penalize [insurance] applicants for risk factors they can’t control.

This is the sort of decision that presidents must make: Hard choices with insufficient information.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers.

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.

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

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

I feel social media is so damaging to young people, I see it as being extremely dangerous.

I just want the truth about it, because if the reality is that electronic music festivals are significantly more dangerous than other festivals, then something should be done about it, and that warrants conversation.

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.