Quotes About Risk

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he's broke or he needs the money.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it, going back to pursue your true passion can be kind of nerve wracking.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you're gonna get screwed.

It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Travel is not about money, it's about courage.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.