“No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.”

“Risk is what you make of it.”

“The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing is not in what you publish but in its consequences. If you set out to describe reality, then the influence of the writing is upon reality.”

“It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk.”

“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”

“If you never take a risk, you will never
know what changes you need to make.”

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”

“Governance and leadership are the yin and the yang of successful organisations. If you have leadership without governance you risk tyranny, fraud and personal fiefdoms. If you have governance without leadership you risk atrophy, bureaucracy and indifference.”

“But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.”