Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier.

Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

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

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

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

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.

'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

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

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

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

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.

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.