I have to be a good game manager for us to be able to win games. I like having a gunslinger mentality, though, because I'm not afraid to make any throw.
I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable...
We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to...
Fail hard, fail fast and fail often is the only way to get involved with real innovation in this fast changing world. Instead, most companies are trying to prevent failure at all cost, which makes...
There are no safe voyages and no safe ports.
A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.
We live in a blatantly corrupt world and smart people engage in the wise practice of risk management.
Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother
Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep
Our operation has a mortality rate of 1%. So far we have operated on ninety-nine patients with great success; you are our one hundredth, hence you have a 100% probability of dying on the table.
In short, the fragilista {medical, economic, social planning} is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects...
Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.
Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...