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Value investing is risk aversion. -- Seth Klarman
When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down. -- Jens Nordvig
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. -- Seth Klarman
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined. -- Seth Klarman
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion. -- Peter Thiel
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. -- Peter Diamandis
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. -- Paul Singer
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
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. -- Burt Rutan
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump. -- Michael Arrington
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. -- Alan Hirsch

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