Quotes About Risk

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I have mutual funds. I have a lot of individual stocks. I'm across the board, really well diversified.