“Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our “heed-takers” more than ever.”
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Manifesto, ThePowerOfIntroverts.com, January 2012 (est).
“There is no evidence that risk takers in the economic domain have an unusual appetite for gambles on high stakes; they are merely less aware of risks than more timid people are.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 24, "The engine of capitalism", page 263 (ISBN 9780141033570).
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