#risk

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#appetite #bank #bus #bus driver #companies

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#almost #always #constant #down #like

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #companies #fill #going #high

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#become #been #best #done #evil

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#because #become #creativity #everything #find

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#at-risk #basic #cannot #child #child abuse

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#become #choose #continue #increasingly #long

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#capable #careers #comes #courage #did

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#china #continue #deficit #economy #grow

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. ↗

— David R. Brower

#door #economy #expose #horrifying #once