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“I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Earth Lost Sound Risk Huge Losing Percent Rewards Math Obsessed Wealthy Losing Money

Author:Tony Robbins

“Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.”

May Real Given Loss Quality Risk Economic Danger Periods Percent Relation Management Investment Decline Earning Deterioration Economic Change

Book:The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

Source: The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

“Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.”

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Author:Ferran Adria

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells Kind Roles Environment Risk Safe Comfortable Percent Breathe New Things Scenarios Taking Risks Trying New Things

Author:Nina Dobrev

“The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.”

Way I Can Reason Home Light Night Guy Dark White Risk Doors Special Percent Sight Bottom Combination Kicks Bad Guys Eighty Kicking Entrances Rail Warrants Lasers White Light High Risk

Author:Steven Seagal

“A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.”

Doe Happens Lasts Values Risk Car Percent Accidents Calculations Evaluate Car Accident Airbags

Author:David Einhorn

“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Body Able Risk Ten Comfortable Percent Organization Profit Operations Grants Pens Ninety Translations Salary Funding Niche Specialists

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.”

Five Risk Groups Television Ten Percent Scientist Entertainment Programming Prime Prime Time

Author:George Gerbner

“The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings.”

People Years Wells Sometimes Government Used Brain Study Five Risk Percent Average Phones Cancer Eight Five Years Warning Finnish Cellphone Brain Cancer

Author:Devra Davis

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.”

Years Heart Shows Differences Study Risk Huge Disease Percent Add Seven Average Meat Diets Pounds Vegetarian Lighters Heart Disease Vegetarian Diet

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.”

Years Believe Heart Children Facts Kids Age School Parent Risk Disease Percent Blame Factors Overweight Heart Disease Obese

Author:Alison Sweeney

“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Hands Would Be Three Five Four Risk Security Percent Fairs Folks Spending Touched Immigrants Imports Food Security

Author:Tom Vilsack

“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.”

Ifs Thinking Men Enough Risk Huge Lovers Husband Percent Female Twenties Victim Eight Gamble Being A Woman

Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

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