Risk Quotes

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”

“There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.”

“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

“I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them”

“Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.”

“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.”

“Victory is only wrested by running risks.”

“Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.”

“First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”

“One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.”

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”

“It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment”

“You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.”

“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”

“The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.”

“Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.”

“People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.”

“If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.”

“I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.”

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”

“There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.”

“Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.”

“The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.”