High Risk High Reward Quotes & Sayings

To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages. — Jack Valenti

Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart. — Charles Emmerson

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control. — David Neeleman

As I took in the scene, I smiled softly. Family and friends - that's what mattered most. Money made a difference, yes, but it couldn't buy back a life. — Yasmine Galenorn

If the risk is high, the reward is high ... Why not roll the dice? — Tyron Woodley

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked. — John Hickenlooper

She had always clung to the hope her world would somehow regain its course and would one day cease its unbearable orbit of a darkened star — Shehanne Moore

the fog was fog and yet was not fog. it was liquid and solid, then gas, then a roiling putrescence expanding like a balloon blown with filth. — Tim Curran

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was. — John Hickenlooper