Risk Reward Ratio Quotes

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.

Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?'

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.

To beat opposing teams, you have to attack, and to attack, you have to take risks.

The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.

I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

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

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

People say I take too many risks. But the fact is, there is risk involved in every shot. You can get out trying to defend a ball as well.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

The reward is in the risk.