Quotes About Risk

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

Investing entails risk, and risk means that you could lose money occasionally for reasons that are beyond your control. However, you can make sure to reduce the possibility of errors by controlling your decision making process.

you bought a single company, which applies excessive financial leverage, the risk of losses is very real, and you could lose your entire investment.

In a simple definition, investing is often described as the process of laying out money for assets now, in the expectation of receiving more money in the future.

traders who are honest with themselves, will admit that being consistently successful in this game is extremely hard. Some studies suggest that 95% of traders lose money, and "only 5% of traders can make a living at it," or "only 1% of traders really make big money." 39 John

Be prepared for the possible outcomes and use only money you could afford to lose, even if your initial speculative trades seem to be successful. Almost

Almost all investors I know, who consider themselves proper investors according to the definition above, like to do the occasional trade, punt on pure speculation. But they do it with money they consider part of their gambling portfolio, or play money. They would never risk their financial well being by mindlessly gambling with their main wealth. What

Bad investments are the exact opposite. They require constant new capital to keep an investment going at ever lower returns, or in the worst case, negative returns - in effect your are burning money. Finding

Per the dictionary definition, risk is "a situation involving exposure to danger, harm, or loss." We face the possibility of loss in whatever we buy or invest in. For

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.

management risks, litigation risk, and about specific operational risks,

Risk of Financial Leverage This risk of loss increases exponentially when we add any form of financial leverage, i.e. borrowing money to invest.

He understood that during depressed markets, if you can get a decent average price at a bottom price range, it would make the selling part much easier, even if you misjudged the timing of the sales. To

At the risk of repeating myself, every investor's goal is to buy an investment at a low price and then sell it at a higher price. Buy low and sell high! The one thing that always keeps you from accomplishing this simple mission is yourself, not because making the purchase or sale is difficult to find out or to accomplish.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

In a long-range study of 91,000 nurses over twelve years, the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard showed that the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women is twice as high in those who eat red meat more than once a day as in those who consume it less than three times a week .97 The risk of breast cancer could therefore be halved simply by reducing consumption of red meat.

same conclusion for colon cancer: The risk was twice as high for people who ate large quantities of meat as for those who consumed fewer than 20 grams (an ounce) a day. (With regular consumption of fish—rich in omega-3s—the risk went down by 50 percent.)98

This study shows that lifestyle is fundamentally involved in vulnerability to cancer.

It's an incontrovertible fact that many--more than half of all children--will try [drugs]. For some of those, drugs will have no major negative impact on their lives. For others, however, the outcome will be catastrophic.

Randomness, openness to accident and serendipity, spontaneity; artistic risk, emotional urgency and intensity, reader/viewer participation; an overly literal tone, as if a reporter were viewing a strange culture; plasticity of form, pointillism; criticism as autobiography; self-reflexivity, self-ethnography, anthropological autobiography; a blurring (to the point of invisibility)

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. —NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI

The Revolution eats its own. That's the law. And the greatest heroes die with it. They always know their fate when they begin. That's their true heroism.

the third kind of thing we don't think about—the things the thinking of which just plain scares us. The things the thinking of which would change everything.