James Jebbia Quotes

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

The administration points out that no major terrorist acts have occurred on American soil since 9/11. Clearly, we must be doing something right, they say, and maybe we don’t need to do much more--- at least not at home.

There is a danger in action. There is a danger in inaction. The people have to decide which is greater…. A 21 year old Moslem Male is a lot more likely to be a terrorist than an 85 year old Norwegian grandmother …. Scrutinize more carefully the people who are in a category that might make them more likely to be a danger.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.

They all overvalued the importance of stability.

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

I think it can be very safe to go to O'Hare and Wrigley and Sox park and Soldier Field, but you have to deal with some reality. Just because a threat is not specific and verifiable doesn't mean nearly what it used to mean, in terms of you being able to sleep well at night.

I am the most conservative person you will ever come across, and that's because I'm good at reducing risks while leaving the potential rewards high.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite.

I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don't want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

We don't have to learn to live with terror, but we must be prepared and accept the reality it is here.

In the past, I had the marketing know how to get people to talk about my products, but I didn't have the infrastructure or logistics to fulfill the demand properly.

I've never put all my eggs in one basket, and I've always been cautious.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

I'm not the kind of person to put all my eggs in one basket.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.