Risk Avoidance Quotes & Sayings

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance. — George M. Church

The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance. — James F. Clapp III

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance. — Seth Klarman

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage ... the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[ ... ]Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking. — John F. Kennedy

Avoidance of risk is the greatest risk of all. — Henry Cloud

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb