Oswald Grubel quotes

“I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.”
-- Oswald Grubel

#Long Quotes #Risk Quotes #Management Quotes

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”

“I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.”

“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”

“Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.”

“People need to learn to live with more risk.”

“I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.”

“Time is the supreme Law of nature.”