High Risk Investment Quotes

When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

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.

I think it's always interesting when you see a company start moving so quickly - it's like wow, incredible. When a company like Uber starts breaking away, it's not a linear thing. It's exponential. All of a sudden, the guy you know who threw $25,000 at Uber very early on - all the sudden, that $25,000 is $25 million.

The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead and invested the money.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

SpaceX is very unusual. I don't know of any other startup where the founder put in $100 million of his own money before looking for any outside capital. They have wildly exceeded any reasonable expectations.

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.