Recognizing risk, investors paying it too little heed — Howard Marks
Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
Too much money, risky and new, asset prices, prospective returns, safety — Howard Marks
Short-term price fluctuation is not the real risk. It is an opportunity. — Naved Abdali
Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks
Risk arises when markets go so high that prices imply losses rather than the potential rewards they should. — Howard S. Marks
In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take. —
Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
Investment risk comes primarily from too high prices, and too high prices often come from excessive optimism and inadequate skepticism and risk aversion. — Howard S. Marks
It's important to recognize that the riskiness of investing comes only partly from the things you invest in. A lot of the risk comes from the behavior of the participants. — Howard Marks
Correlation, diversification, risk control — Howard Marks
Almost any asset can be risky or safe, depending on how other investors treat it. — Howard Marks
Risk-tolerant investors, risk-adverse investors, return — Howard Marks
Investing without a clear understanding of associated risk is like a child is playing with fire. Risk assets are called risk assets for a reason. — Naved Abdali
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
Short Market Risk Quotes
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter
Everyone believes something is risky, unwillingness to buy, price falls — Howard Marks
Risk, things can happen, worry about permanent loss — Howard Marks
Investor psychology, priced anywhere, fundamentals — Howard Marks
Long-term investment success, risk control, aggressiveness — Howard Marks
Failure to anticipate co-movement, investment error — Howard Marks
Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
Inefficient markets, generous returns, raw materials, mispricings, differential skill — Howard Marks
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
Successful investing, attention, aspects, satisfactory, risk, challenging, essential — Howard Marks
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Stock Market Risk Quotes
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. — Bernard Madoff
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one. — Mellody Hobson
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. — Warren Buffett
Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management. — Benjamin Graham
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. — Ron Chernow
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about. — Wayne Gretzky
People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high. — Michael Hudson
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. — Gus Grissom
Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty — Jordan Belfort
Take the risk or lose the chance.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. — Naval Ravikant
I think that the business about volatility being risk is a con job which was perpetrated primarily because volatility is machinable. — Howard Marks
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. — Michael Bloomberg
Our confidence in Tesla has grown as we've done research on what ride-sharing potentially could add. It could limit the risks significantly, it's a much more profitable business than electric vehicles. — Cathie Wood
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. —
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates
Financial Risk Quotes
After the last financial crisis, the banks more than doubled their capital and liquidity and they’re far more aware and better at managing the risks they’re taking. — Jerome Powell
Many of the great financial disasters we’ve seen have been failures to foresee and manage risk. — Howard S. Marks
Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. — Robert Kiyosaki
Take risks and conquer your fears.
I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it. — Yvon Chouinard
In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error. — John G. Stumpf
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science. — Seth Klarman
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased. — Noam Chomsky
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. — Bernie Sanders
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’. — Malcolm Gladwell
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones. — Nouriel Roubini
Stock Market Quotes
Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life. — Bo Sanchez
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it. — John Mulaney
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp
If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out. — John Maynard Keynes
We are going to see the treasury market collapse. Then the stock market. I don't believe anything Powell or the Government says. Protect your assets now! — Douglas Macgregor
Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.' — Max Keiser
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
I've heard it said that an economist is a portfolio manager who never marks to market. — Howard Marks
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
The classic view of the correct price of a common stock is that it is derived from the value of all the future earnings. These earnings are uncertain and subject to unknowable factors. — Edward O. Thorp
All past declines look like an opportunity, all future declines look like a risk. — Morgan Housel
To beat the market, focus on investments well within your knowledge and ability to evaluate, your 'circle of competence'. — Edward O. Thorp
Take risks - if you win, you will be happy. If you lose, you will be wise.
The problem with fiat is that simply maintaining the wealth you already own requires significant active management and expert decision-making. You need to develop expertise in portfolio allocation, risk management, stock and bond valuation, real estate markets, credit markets, global macro trends, national and international monetary policy, commodity markets, geopolitics, and many other arcane and highly specialized fields in order to make informed investment decisions that allow you to maintain the wealth you already earned. You effectively need to earn your money twice with fiat, once when you work for it, and once when you invest it to beat inflation. The simple gold coin saved you from all of this before fiat. — Saifedean Ammous
The benefit of short sellers to the markets is they’re sort of the canary in the coal mine...They are the early warning signal about a problem in the business, a problem in the capital markets. — Bill Ackman
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later .
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. — Brian Halligan
In the mid-noughties some of these anecdotes, observational studies and marketing claims were finally tested in a number of properly randomised trials that looked at the trendiest antioxidant vitamins, especially carotene, selenium and vitamin E. They detected no benefit whatsoever for heart disease and in fact found a significantly increased cancer and heart failure risk in the groups taking them. — Tim Spector
Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product. — Eugene Fama
Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets — Steve Blank
I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times. — Harry Markowitz
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes — Peter Lynch
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust. — Ginni Rometty
Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, "I was only playing with the market's money." That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. — Bill Lipschutz
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility. — George Soros
rBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market? — Samuel Epstein
For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process. — Robert Kiyosaki
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small. — Tim Ferriss
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. — Ron Chernow
It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market. — William J. Bernstein
I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly. — Nouriel Roubini
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis. — Vikram Pandit
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk. — Ron Chernow
In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return. — Colin Powell
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks. — Nouriel Roubini
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. — Grace Napolitano
I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job. — Robert Kiyosaki
I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. — Lidia Yuknavitch
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets. — Bill Gross
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. — Henry Paulson
I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done. — Franklin Raines
I was going to the flea markets to buy furniture. It was getting done the way it was getting done - on a small scale and with a lot of soul and heart and risk. We did fashion like fashion was done before - spontaneously, with joy and freedom, and that's what created our identity. — Ines de La Fressange
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them. — Avinash Persaud
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. — Nicholas Stern
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