Jonathan Anderson Quotes

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.

My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

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

The expert is out to point out all the difficulties and dangers.

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.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

You just always have to protect yourself. Try not to take any unnecessary hits.

Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.

I'm a big supporter of safety.

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

Ever since September 11, I've been quite conservative in what we've ordered. We've never really been supply-demand anyway.

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 don't like to risk - I'm actually not a tough guy at all, make no mistake about it, so I'm not going to do something that I'm scared of. So, if something looks dangerous, at the time I didn't think it was, because I'm the first person to cower away from a risk of injury if there seems to be one.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.