Quotes About Risk

The prevalence of surprise in the world of business is evidence that uncertainty is more likely to prevail than mathematical probability.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

I have everything to offer and nothing to lose

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business

This is a crucial safeguard of our capitalist system, because if shareholders could be sued whenever a company made a mistake, people like you and me would be afraid to buy shares and become investors.

This is a crucial safeguard of our capitalist system, because if shareholders could be sued whenever a company made a mistake, people like you and me would be afraid to buy shares and become investors. Why would we want to run the risk of being held responsible for another big oil spill, or a rat hair in a hamburger, or the endless variety of mishaps that occur in business every day? Without limited liability, nobody would want to buy a single share of stock.

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

So while the smaller fast growers risk extinction, the larger fast growers risk a rapid devaluation when they begin to falter.

This is investing, where the smart money isn't so smart, and the dumb money isn't really as dumb as it thinks. Dumb money is only dumb when it listens to the smart money.

To make this spectacular showing, you only had to find one big winner out of eleven. The more right you are about any one stock, the more wrong you can be on all the others and still triumph as an investor.

By now you might be wondering what's the point of investing in a stodgy old company such as IBM, GM, or U.S. Steel? There are several reasons you might do this. First, big companies are less risky, in that they generally are in no danger of going out of business. Second, they are likely to pay a dividend. Third, they have valuable assets that might be sold off at a profit.

To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor.

Only invest what you could afford to lose without that loss having any effect on your daily life in forseable future.

By the way, the odds against making a living in the day-trading business are about the same as the odds against making a living at racetracks, blackjack tables, or video poker.

Debt is saving in reverse. The more it builds up, the worse off you are.

The old Wall Street adage never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs may apply to racehorses, but it's mlarkey when it comes to houses.

Shared vision fosters risk taking and experimentation. When people are immersed in a vision, they often don't know how to do it. They run an experiment. They change direction and run another experiment. Everything is an experiment, but there is no ambiguity.

knowing freedom was dangerous.

It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it's dangerous.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

If we all knew the consequences of every decision we made, we'd probably never make any.