Warren Buffett Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

• If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Jewelry, Management

• When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Sleep, Night

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  Warren Buffett

  Men, Games, Risk

• The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Rewards, Portfolios

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.231, John Wiley & Sons

• Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Generosity, Risk

• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Knowing, Long, Risk

• At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Risk, Faults

• The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 1, 1994.

• Never risk what you have and need for what we don't have and don't need.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Needs

• Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Investing, Buffets

• Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Risk, Investment

• It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Desire, Needs

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