Definition of Risk

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Definition of Risk

Risk

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

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Risk Quotations

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Risk Translations

risk in Danish is riskere, risiko
risk in Dutch is kans lopen, op het spel zetten
risk in Finnish is vaarantaa
risk in German is Risiko, Wagnis, Risiko, riskieren, wagen
risk in Italian is rischiare, rischio
risk in Latin is periculum
risk in Norwegian is risiko
risk in Portuguese is risco
risk in Spanish is riesgo, arriesgar

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