Quotes About Risk

The real payoff of asset allocation comes when you figure out the right mix of how much of your money you keep safe and how much you're willing to risk to get greater rewards and have the potential to grow faster.

Tony, by having a fifty-fifty portfolio, you really have more like ninety-five percent of your risk in stocks!

The overwhelmingly most important [as you figured out] is asset allocation.

Ray is showing us that if your money is divided equally, yet your investments are not equal in their risk, you are not balanced!

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. —MARIO ANDRETTI

if you want to take the island, you have to burn your boats!

And the reason people get screwed is that by the time they hear that the stock market (or gold, or the real estate market, or commodities, or any other type of investment) is a great place to go, very often the bubble is just about to end. So you need to put in place a system to make sure you don't get seduced into putting too much of your money in any one market or asset class or too much in your Risk/Growth Bucket.

Fact. If you've failed to act in your financial world, it's partly because you're uncertain, you're unsure as to what is right or wrong and which approach will succeed or fail.

One of your rules for diversification is to never have anything weighted more than 30%, is that correct? DS: Yes.

The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism," or Warren Buffett's mantra, "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. —WARREN BUFFETT

A portfolio of low-cost index funds is the best approach for a percentage of your investments because we don't know what stocks will be "best" going forward.

225,000 people have died "iatrogenic deaths" in the past year. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it's the third largest cause of death in the United States.

None of these seasoned investment professionals could have predicted what would happen next.

The Constitution has never been in such danger …

And then he painted to himself a not untrue picture of the probable miseries of a man who begins life too high up on the ladder, — who succeeds in mounting before he has learned how to hold on when he is aloft.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

We are not in this world to live safely. We are here to fall in love and break our hearts.

Si la cuerda no fuera delgada, no tendría gracia caminar por ella

Miedo al rechazo... Hermanito, voy a decirte algo, tal vez lo único que aprendí en mi corta vida. Si la cuerda no fuera delgada, no tendría gracia caminar por ella.

La Operación Market Garden, iniciada el 17 de septiembre, no solo era ambiciosa. Estuvo además sorprendentemente mal planificada, sus oportunidades de éxito eran mínimas y no debió intentarse nunca.

Apart from the risk in the blackout of walking into a lamp-post, the greatest danger was being run down by a motorcar. In London, over 2,000 pedestrians were killed in the last four months of 1939.

There was a pump which still worked outside the station, and young women near the entrance took the risk of running with a pail to fetch water.

And God said come to the edge. I can't. I'm afraid. Come to the edge. I can't. I'll fall Come to the edge. I went to the edge and God pushed me…….and I flew.