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We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science -- Seth Klarman
In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return. -- John Caudwell
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities. -- Myron Scholes
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. -- Matt Blunt
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. -- Daniel Boone
Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. -- Curtis Sliwa
I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment. -- Rick Perry
To love is to risk not being loved in return. -- Leo Buscaglia
When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction. -- Paul Gillin
Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return. -- Ben Bernanke
The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke. -- William Poundstone
Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose. -- Seth Klarman
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

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