Risky Business Quotes

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

A mistake I've made is investing in my idea rather than the entrepreneur's. Sometimes I'm excited about an idea that is similar to the entrepreneur's idea - but not the same. A smart entrepreneur will convince me it is the same, until I write a check!

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

This business is fickle. You have very good patches and less good patches, but you learn to ride them out. As long as you don't take yourself too seriously, you'll be fine. When you lose sight of that, you're in trouble.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to enter or remain in the business of manufacturing vaccines — unpredictable consumer demands and lack of financial incentives make vaccine manufacture a risky business.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

I'll do things that a lot of people think is very risky.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

The life of a repo man is always intense.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead and invested the money.

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

Startups often have to do dubious things.