Lance Armstrong Quotes

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

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

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

I'm not a betting man.

Don't bottom fish.

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

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

The people would think I was a fool for not having taken twice as much.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

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.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

Don't go into something you actually don't know much about, in the hopes that you're going to get really financially successful and rewarded... even though people think you're, like, terrific.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

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