Quotes About Investment Risk

#1. 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

#2. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

David Dreman

#3. Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Andrew Lo

#4. Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.

Seth Klarman

#5. When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

Paul Gillin

#6. A crowdfunding investment involves a risk. You should not invest any funds in this offering unless you can afford to lose your entire investment." All that is required by Section

Douglas Slain

#7. Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

Robert F. Engle

#8. As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.

Richard Price

#9. It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Benjamin Graham

#11. Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

Warren Buffett

#12. The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

Doug Casey

#13. Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

Barry Ritholtz

#14. While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

Seth Klarman

#15. Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

John Key

#16. There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Robert F. Engle

#17. We like investments where the risk is time, not price.

Richard Chandler

#18. The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital ... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

John F. Kennedy

#19. It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

John G. Stumpf

#20. I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

Tom Basso

#21. Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#22. Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

Seth Klarman

#23. 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.

Cristina Kirchner

#24. Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.

Maili Wong

#25. The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

John Templeton

#26. From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

Henry Hazlitt

#27. We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science

Seth Klarman

#28. Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

Ben Bernanke

#29. The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

Alex Berenson

#30. The nature of risk may be the single most important argument for the use of quantitative analysis in investment management. Neither Investors nor Analysts can be blamed for this fact. Nor can Harry Markowitz. Nature made risk a quadratic function. Markowitz only discovered it.

William Sharpe

#31. The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

Benjamin Graham

#32. We understand that you have to create an environment where that those men and women who are entrepreneurs can risk their capital and have an opportunity to get a return on their investment. That's how jobs are created. And that's what Americans are looking for, is that type of vision.

Rick Perry

#33. He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic. They measured risk by volatility: how much a stock or bond happened to have jumped around in the past few years. Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.

Michael Lewis

#34. It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

Andrew Lo

#35. Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.

Astro Teller

#36. Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

John F. Kennedy

#37. the higher returns of the largest endowments are not due primarily to greater risk taking but to a more sophisticated investment strategy that consistently produces better results.

Thomas Piketty

#38. Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

Jack Kemp

#39. [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage ... the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[ ... ]Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

John F. Kennedy

#40. Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor