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...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty. -- Nate Silver
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty. -- Daniel Kahneman
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. -- Brene Brown
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence. -- Gautam Adani
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur. -- Mohnish Pabrai
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty. -- Drew Houston
I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end. -- Karen O
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess. -- Henry Petroski
There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk. -- Richard Arnold Epstein
Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return. -- Ben Bernanke
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism. -- Bill Crawford
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk. -- Andy Greenwald
True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk. -- Will Evans
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. -- Bruce Feiler
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. -- BrenÃ© Brown

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