Risk Management Quotes


What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British prime minister and novelist

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
Machiavelli 1446-1507, Italian statesman and philosopher

The first percept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it was such without a single doubt.
René Descartes 1596-1650, French rationalist philosopher and mathematician

It is not because it is so difficult that we do not try something, it is because we do not try that makes something so difficult.
Seneca 4BC-65AC, Roman writer and moralist

However good our futures research may be, we shall never be able to escape from the ultimate dilemma that all our knowledge is about the past, and all our decisions are about the future.
Ian Wilson, American scenario planning expert and strategy consultant

Risk comes from not knowing what you`re doing.
Warren Buffett 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur