Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Risk Management Quotes
BalanceInvestment IncentivesRegulationRisk Management What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
EconomicsGovernment RoleLeadershipRisk ManagementSpace Exploration If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
AstronomyPlanetary DefenseRisk ManagementSpace Exploration There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.
CautionPrudenceRisk ManagementUncertainty It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
Business StrategyCapital MarketsEconomicsRisk Management Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.