“The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.” WantHardReasonWholeRiskTroubleSecurityFiguresStructureDebtObligationReason Why Author:Robert F. Engle
“The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.” PeopleIfsWantShouldMeanBitsRiskOkayFellowsJewNeighborScriptureLiteralHebrew Author:John Shelby Spong
“I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap (that) you have to take. A lot of people don't want to stick their necks out and take that risk which is totally understandable. Until you are ready to totally bet on yourself and put all of your chips on the table, it doesn't happen.” PeopleThinkingWantHappensRiskReadyTablesSticksFinancialNecksBarriersLeapChips Author:Chris Gethard
“Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.” WantGivingFeelsMeanJobsLeftGrowsSidesMy OwnRiskFootballInvolvedAmbitionDaughterMy FamilyCoachesMy DaughterMy Own LifeI Love Football Author:Emmanuel Petit
“I take risks, if you want to call it a risk. All the people running for president, last time, you know, they all came to visit me or meet me. They all wanted my endorsement and I endorsed [Rick] Perry at that time. He wasn't that well-liked either, but you have to do what you have to do.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsRunningWantedLastsPresidentRiskLast TimeEndorsements Author:Joe Arpaio
“If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?” IfsWantMeanRiskMinutesBenefitsTwentiesMassiveZeroVersusMeditating Author:Jennifer Ashton
“I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.” IfsThinkingWantRiskAdventure Author:Lillian Gordy Carter
“Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."” PeopleIfsWantAbleCuttingRiskRocksBoatMaking ChangesNuisance Author:Brandon Marshall
“My daughter is super ballsy. I always follow her lead. I actually don't need to encourage her to take risks. She likes to push herself; she wants to see how far she can get. It's really inspiring to see that in a young woman.” WantNeedsYoungRiskDaughterLikesMy DaughterYoung WomenReally Inspiring Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.” IfsWantChildrenRealJobsRiskOur ChildrenBlameJewYour ChildrenImmigrantsTargetWagesRefugeeTempting Author:Adam Hochschild
“I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.” WantI CanRiskLoved Ones Author:Adam Hochschild
“If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.” IfsWantTryingGrowsRiskFiguresWhat You Want Author:Zendaya
“You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.” IfsWorldWantPowerfulAcceptingRiskCome UpAgencyMost PowerfulIntelligence Agencies Author:Edward Snowden
“The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.” PeopleWayWantShouldTryingStatesCulturePresidentNumbersRiskPolicyModelsNegativeConservativeBe GoodServantDepartmentForeign PolicyCountingSmall NumbersCivil Servants Author:John Bolton
“The trouble is that the risks that are being hedged very well by new financial securities are financial risks. And it appears to me that the real things you want to hedge are real risks, for example, risks in innovation. The fact is that you'd like companies to be able to take bigger chances. Presumably one obstacle to successful R&D, particularly when the costs are large, are the risks involved.” WantWellsRealFactsAbleChanceCompanySuccessfulRiskTroubleSecurityExampleInvolvedCostBiggerInnovationFinancialObstaclesReal ThingsFinancial RiskFinancial Security Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Think very carefully about what you want in life. Reckon with the risks.” ThinkingWantRiskWhat You Want Author:Stephen Curry
“Some dogs could play fetch all day long, while others have absolutely no interest in chasing a ball. Some might love "find the treat" type puzzle toys and others may completely ignore them. The important things are that your dog finds the toy interesting without becoming obsessed over it, and that it is size and safety appropriate for your dog. A Chihuahua is probably not going to be a good match to a Kong as big as she is, and you wouldn't want to risk having your Malamute swallow one of those smaller size tennis balls.” WantMayLongImportantPlayBigsMightInterestInterestingRiskDogTypeBecomingTreatsBallsSafetyImportant ThingsSizeObsessedTennisAppropriateOver ItToysPuzzlesChasingFetchTennis BallsChihuahua Author:Cesar Millan
“It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.” IfsWantMomentsProblemHandsRiskFeminismFeministAriseRadicalRevolutionaryThat Moment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't think I realized that they would be willing to risk kind of a 1920s Germany in order to blow it all up, not realizing that we've accomplished a lot as Americans, and we want to keep the good things and revolutionize the new things.” PeopleThinkingWantKindWould BeOrderRealizingRiskWillingTrumpGood ThingsBlowI RealizedWorriedGermanyAccomplishedFrightenedNew Things Author:Reid Hoffman
“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.” IfsThinkingWantKindProblemSinCreativeRiskWillingWindCircumstancesCostConsequenceIronyNovelistsTrafficAvoidedSentimentality Author:Steve Erickson
“You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of children, to have years of companionship; it's not illegal, but the moment you want to screw somebody, you have to get a license from the state to use your genital organs -or run the risk of being charged with any number of crimes carrying sentences up to and including death. So sex is really the only sensible reason for getting married.” WantNeedsYearsChildrenStatesReasonMomentsUseHomeRunningSexNumbersRiskSecurityCrimeMarriedIncludingSentencesIllegalSensibleOrgansCompanionshipScrewsLicenseGetting Married Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce universal writing, you run the risk of losing your local knowledge. Your views are so universalist that the street aspect disappears.” IfsWantWritingRunningViewsRiskStreetsProduceLosingUnderstoodAspectUniversalIntentionDisappearLocalsReadership Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.” WantHumansTurnsDifficultStruggleRiskEgoAmbitionRadicalVulnerabilityBoredomLure Author:C.E. Morgan
“If you just want a comfortable life, the awards, and pats on the back then you play Christian Hip Hop safe. Because playing it safe will give you consistency, but if you're really in this to see peoples lives transform then you're gonna have to do some risk assessment - it is costly to rally try to impact people.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingPlayChristianRiskSafeComfortableImpactHip HopHipsHopsAwardsConsistencyAssessmentPlaying It SafeComfortable Life Author:LeCrae