Absolute Risk Aversion

Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:

    Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)