Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it. The amount of money that I would have to put down now to get that rush, there is no f'ing way I'm going to do it. It's just stupid. I would rather get that rush some other way.

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.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.

Throughout my career, I have always played it safe with the kind of roles I've taken up.

I'm not looking to double my money with one golden opportunity.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

I am a great believer that the risk should reflect the reward.

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.

I'm a conservative businesswoman in a way because I try not to invest too much to the point that if things go bad, I'd lose a lot.

You'd have to get my money out of my cold dead hand before I gambled it away.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

Take calculated risks and limit your downside.

A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result.

That is one of the sides of Los Angeles that I really like as people may have their big careers but there is one side to Hollywood that is always open to taking risks - as long as it doesn't include risking too much money.

We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who praise our ego and lie to us... till that moment you realise that these people are not helping you get ahead.

That's a small portion of my career, taking a moment to do something stupid.

If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.