Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

As Warren Buffett says, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — WARREN BUFFETT

It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Risks are known unknowns. Uncertainties are unknown unknowns.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" forbes.com (20 April 2014)

Risk is what you make of it.

Whenever you create anything, you take a risk. And that includes your life. It may work out, it may not. It may be well received, it may not be. . . .
It's always a risk to take action. It might not work, it might blow up in your face, you might lose money, you might fail. No one may get it.

But that's not the only risk. There's another risk: the risk of not trying it.

How is not trying a risk? You risk settling and continuing in the same direction in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

We fear what we don’t know.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

It is what you know that is your greatest wealth. It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk. There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoid it.

I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that I haven't understood enough, that I can't know enough, that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom...Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you.

Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance.