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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. -- Charles Duhigg
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density. -- Joel Fuhrman
A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself. -- Noam Chomsky
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. -- Henry Paulson
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. -- Martha Beck
To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and credit losses; but it can reduce liquidity premiums, help restore the confidence of investors, and thus promote stability. -- Ben Bernanke
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. -- Sigmar Gabriel
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. -- John Desmond Bernal
Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved. -- Tom Rooney
To win, you have to risk loss. -- Jean-Claude Killy
In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning. -- John McPhee
To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one's eternal soul. -- R. C. Sproul
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable. -- Baltasar Gracian
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. -- Alan Hirsch
Repose not trust in testing another's degree of honesty at the risk of one's loss in matters big, unless collateralized. -- Firoozeh Dumas
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. -- Seth Klarman
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action. -- Robert E. Lee
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. -- bell hooks
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. -- Charlie Munger
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation. -- Henry Hazlitt

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