Potential Loss Quotes

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Risk is part of our jobs.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don't invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don't invest in them, we lose.