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
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
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
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
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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