Acceptable Risk Quotes

Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

No risk that is preventable is acceptable.

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

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

Risk is not a dirty word.

Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. Everything has some risk to it. You know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. So what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause

We always take acceptable risks in our society.

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.