Jason Fried Quotes

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.

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

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

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

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

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.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

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.

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

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

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

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

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

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

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

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