Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

If you want to avoid all risks, soon you will have no risks to worry about.

When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.

In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.