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Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security. -- Barack Obama
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. -- John C. Bogle
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science. -- Seth Klarman
It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market. -- William J. Bernstein
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop. -- Michael Oxley
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down. -- Jens Nordvig
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. -- Bernie Sanders
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. -- Ron Chernow
The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores. -- Natalie Massenet
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. -- Henry Paulson
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
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. -- Grace Napolitano
The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced. -- Audrey MacLean
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk. -- Ron Chernow
When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets. -- Bill Gross
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. -- Gary Hamel
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose. -- Jack Reed
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
In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns. -- Uday Kotak
There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market. -- Mike McGavick
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market. -- Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks. -- Nouriel Roubini
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
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market. -- Joseph Conrad
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. -- William J. Bernstein
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them. -- Avinash Persaud
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. -- Nicholas Stern

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