If you tell someone it will reduce their risk then they re more likely to take the risk.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

Take the risk.

Understandably, investors have interpreted all of this as a green light to take more risk.

I must take that risk.

Let us not take that risk.

Why did I take the risk?

I'm going to take my risk.

I wouldn't let you take such risk

I'd take the risk, it you would.

That's a risk I'm ready to take.

The aim, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said again in December, is to push investors to take more risk.

And I believe I can take that risk.

Mai says it is a risk she won t take

Those who take the risk must be in control.

I invite you to take that risk with me.

I couldn't take that risk with Miss Thursday, sir.

He's a soldier. He'll have to take a risk.

Now, you take my outfit, the Pacific All Risk.

Take more, sell more, waste more.

Hard work never killed anyone. But why take the risk?!

A failure to take concrete action would risk breeding disillusionment.

I've actually chosen to take a different kind of risk.

Take a private dick who'd risk his neck for 100.

Even with the Levantine's take, it was worth the risk.

True, someone has to come first. Other financial players take on more risk because derivatives and repo players bankruptcy exemptions put them first.

Did companies that compensated their traders (and not just their CEOs) more highly take more risk? Was financial institutions assumption of excessive risk the result of incompetence or stupidity, or was it a rational response to the implicit guarantee offered by the government?

So for example, take risk taking. We know that adolescents have a tendency to take risks.

Ratings that pretend to take into account systemic risk might prove as dangerous as ratings that ignore such risk.

We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people.

The result will be more incentives to assume risk.

Opponents of prudential oversight of systemic risk take two different positions.

So I decided to take a risk and go to Europe.

So I'd rather take the risk then end up empty handed.

I wouldn't like you to take a risk on my account.

If you don't take a risk, you can't make a game.

Executives in highly leveraged institutions should be paid more, because they bear more risk.

Managers take more risks in search of higher returns to justify their pay, which at some point will lead to risk mispricing, and a crisis.

But, if more risk builds up through continued expansion of shadow credit, this risk buffer may become inadequate.

Obviously, the latter risk is more relevant in today s conditions.

Investors are piling on more risk at increasingly elevated prices.

This reduces incentives to take risk, though it does not eliminate them.

Failure to take such action can entail the risk of serious consequences.

Failure to take such action can entail the risk of serious consequences.

And in fact, the large corporations, the governments, can't take the risk.