Jon Jones Quotes

I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

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

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.

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.

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

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

Bigger risk equals bigger reward.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.