Scott Borchetta Quotes

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

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

I really enjoy doing the action stuff, but you have to be careful about who you say yes to with the action stuff 'cause some people want to do it but don't know how, and then it just becomes incredibly frustrating.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

I am convinced by my style of play, so I take risks without much hesitation.

There are many things that only teenagers can do. Many things that they learn while they are teenagers will become important tools for them after they grow up, and I hope teenagers would make choices that they will not regret in the future.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

Don't be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.

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

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?