Quotes About Risk

Won't Work." Apple's former chief financial officer

I liked the film because it was about taking risks and learning to let those you love take risks," Jobs said.

Let's Be Pirates!

Jobs flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons.

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.

El éxito trae complacencia. La complacencia trae fracaso. Solo sobrevive el paranoico.

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Trustin' a woman is like walkin' in California," Coydog would say. "You know there's bound to be a quake sometimes but you just keep on walkin' anyways. What else could you do?

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

if I had only picked up a telephone and spoken my heart.

Human connection only reminded me of what I could lose.

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.