“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.” ThinkingFightingBusinessRiskSeaDangerShipsManagersControlledCaptainsStormyStormy Seas Author:Daniel Kahneman
“You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.” KnowsMenGivingHas BeensSidesHoursWealthRiskSeaHonestProudFatsOwnersOld ManMistakenPersistentCould Have BeenSuspiciousBeggarPursesBombayFastidious Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” KnowsLifeReasonFoundLeadershipRiskSeaDangerousDangerAdventureTerribleOceanDeterminationStormSufficientSailingFishermanLife Is An AdventureNauticalSailing And The SeaLife AdventureSailing ShipsRisks In LifeShips At SeaSea LifeRisking Your Life Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.” WorldNeedsRiskSeaChildhoodSailing Author:Paulo Coelho
“Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.” PeopleValuesRiskSeaSpecialPeriodsRoseFishingAssetsLiving OnRisk-takingHigh SeasInbreds Author:Michael Lewis
“I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.” Has BeensPainYoungRiskSeaHorribleBeachOver YouTrashDumpInfectionGoing To The Beach Author:Dacia Maraini
“For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .” PeopleYearsMightRiskSeaTenSouthChinaBombsVillageCommunistVietnamFloatsDrowningPiracyDehydration Author:Vernon A. Walters
“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.” PeopleHumansMeanLyingStuffAbilityLevelsSituationSawsRiskSeaLike YouTypeOceanLowsAreasRiversStormRisingDestructiveFarmsNew OrleansFrequencyKatrinaBangladeshDeltaSanitationBacking Up Author:Bill Gates
“Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War ... Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't ... the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.” WorldWarCountryStatesFightingWealthAnswersUnitedMistakeUnited StatesRiskSeaColdBuiltCoreWar Of The WorldsCivil WarTerritoryWorld War IiWorld War IOther CountriesCold War Author:George Friedman
“Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.” CertainWaitingWaterLordSeeingRiskSeaKillingStormTrust In GodThirstPerilOur LordCertain Death Book:Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Source: Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
“Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.” PeopleWorldMomentsLevelsRiskSeaRocksOceanRaisesWestEnormousIceCoastPercentagesSlidesGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.” PeopleCountryLyingLevelsMillionsRiskSeaLowsErrorsDuesRisingComparisonCarbonEmissionsFloodingBangladeshCarbon Emissions Author:Bill McKibben