Risk Adventurer Gifts

"Come on, Louis. No risk, no reward."

'Looks like you've lost your stomach for risk.'

"I'm not unwilling to take risks. I'd just like them to be at someone else's expense."

The toughest form of Mountain climbing is getting out of a rut.

Exporting - Highs and Lows

"Remember, Mr. Hicks, the stock market - and life - reward risk-takers. So the first step is for you to come from under the couch and discuss it."

"Surprisingly enough, this is in the range of acceptable risk."

'You choose your own salary here. Would you care to work at: 1. No risk,; 2. Some risk; 3. High risk; or 4. Are you sure you want to do this.'

Anatomy of a golfer's brain.

"I caution everyone to avoid taking the first field reporter job that comes along."

Remember how you advised me to get a dangerous hobby to build up my self-esteem and impress people? Well, all the dangerous hobbies were already taken. You wrestle alligators

'What do you mean, you're tired of the rat race?'

'Think of this as a window of opportunity.'

Corporate Ladder and Corporate Elevator

"What's your occupation?"

"If I'm such a poor risk, how did I get so deep into debt?"

"I know it's a big risk, Fred, but don't lose sight of its strongest selling point: You're taking it, not me!"

"My name's Edwin, and I'm addicted to risk."

"Would you like something you're under qualified for, or something you're overqualified for?"

Now hiring.

'I don't think you can claim for this as a substitute car ...'

Yomp Investments - Big risks sometimes means BIG BUCKS!: 'I'm a little uneasy about the 'sometimes'...'

"I guess I'll see you around Frank."

'Now, you can SWASH, and you can BUCKLE, but you can't SWASHBUCKLE.'

'You're hired. Go figure.'

Fish talking in a bar - one has a heap of hooks hanging out of his head 'And you must be the one who got away?'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

Three years ago during a special episode of the Ask Sadie™ show, our resident octogenarian asked readers for advice about how she could deal with her midlife crisis. You should try a radical makeover. When I hit midlife, I dyed my hair, got some tattoos, and dropped 75 pounds. My husband barely recognized me when he returned from overseas. He was not happy with my "new self," so I divorced him rather than change who I'd become. It was the best decision I'd made since I cut my thieving mother out

'My new investment counselor keeps referring to my stock portfolio as 'a financial aneurism waiting to happen'.'

"...and before that, I was an embryo."

"Okay... how about some people are poverty rich but asset poor?"

"On your application it says you've been a circus clown, an orthopaedic surgeon and a molecular biologist."

'Running away from the circus to join the world of accountancy isn't working out as I expected. . .'

We don't have a budget to redo the last guy's business cards, door placard, and so on, so would you mind assuming his identity in the meantime?

Job hoppers.