Gerry Schwartz Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

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

I've learned that all investments have risk.

In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

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.

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

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

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

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

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

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

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

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.