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One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck