Stock Market Risk Quotes

#1. Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

Barack Obama

#2. Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

John C. Bogle

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. 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

#7. He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#8. 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

#9. You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

Henrique M. Simoes

#10. 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