Best Financial Risk Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everybody does some sort of diversification. It is the extent and broadness that varies according to risk tolerance.”

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“It is foolish to believe that cash in the form of bills or your bank account is not exposed to any risk. Sure, it is.”

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“There is a considerable information bias that exists among different levels of market participants. The majority of the information is not available to everybody, nor does everybody decide after considering all relevant information.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“I believe when using leverage, the following four conditions must be met. 1. Leverage must be in the general direction of a secular trend. 2. Leverage should never expire. 3. Leveraged positions should not be subject to forced sell. 4. The maximum possible loss should not be more than the invested capital.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“... Why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology period some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... Press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“... why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology. Some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“If insolvency is not transparent or well understood, and if illiquidity is backstopped by the Federal Reserve, then why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology. Some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own. ... Enter AI. The next bank run may be triggered not by human panic but by AI imitating human panic. An AI bank analysis program with deeply layered neural networks and machine learning capability (perhaps complimented by a GPT capacity to speak with human analysts) Could read millions of pages of financial data on thousands of individual banks, far more than any team of human analysts could review. It's training set of materials provides familiarity with the dynamics of bank runs, basically an emerging property of a complex dynamic system, along with historical examples, worst case scenarios, and defensive moves. Events like the gold corner of 1869, the panic of 1907, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the S&L crisis of the 1980s would all seem as fresh as today's news. This system would reach the same conclusion as a human analyst — move first, get your money out fast, don't be the last in line. The true danger is not that the machine thinks like a human — it's supposed to. The danger is that it can act faster and communicate with other machines.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“All common investments have a great feature; the maximum amount you can lose is your capital.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“If you are leveraged five times of your capital, a 20% move in your preferred direction can double your capital, but a similar move in the opposite direction can wipe you out.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“The actual risk is the permanent loss of capital or, to a lesser extent, a sub-par return. Temporary volatility in market price is not a real risk.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“When you invest in stocks or any other asset, your primary risk is the permanent loss of capital. Your secondary risk is a sub-par return, and that’s it. You don’t have any other risk.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“When people hear others’ stories about becoming overnight millionaires, they act upon it and invest their life savings, their houses, and their retirement funds.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“The combination of our natural desire to be better than our peers, our faulty assumption of dodging risk, and our flawed belief of having better chances than others, pushes us into excessive greed territory. We take more significant and sometimes fatal risks.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“In a rising price environment, people tend to throw analysis of risks out of the window. In their mind, the only possible risk is not to join the party.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Analyzing prices is not wrong. However, picking inflated prices as your only source of information is terrible.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Prices are easy to understand, and it is easy to isolate or pick assets based on prices. Understanding the businesses and analyzing the risk is complex.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Your decision to invest, or not to invest, should be based on pure economics. There is no moral obligation to invest. For moral causes, do charity, do not make investments.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Investing without a clear understanding of associated risk is like a child is playing with fire. Risk assets are called risk assets for a reason.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Leverage is a two-edged sword. The edge that can cut you, cuts deeper.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Companies should assess and mitigate financial risks because doing so safeguards their financial stability, protects investments, and ensures they are better prepared to weather economic uncertainties. By identifying and managing potential risks, businesses can reduce the likelihood of adverse financial events and maintain a strong, sustainable financial position.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Cash in your bank account is as safe as the creditworthiness of your banker. No more, no less.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“If you have a leveraged position, make sure nobody can take it away.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“A regulator's greatest fear is the sequential collapse of hedge funds, banks, and brokerages. That process is hard to spot and even harder to stop. ... There are two sides to every trade. In a crash there can be just as many winners as losers. The problem arises when the losers go out of business. At that point the winners can't collect so they become losers too. It's as if you were a big winner at roulette and went to the cashier to collect your winnings only to find the cashier window closed and the casino had just filed for bankruptcy. All you have left is a pocketful of worthless chips. At that point, even the market winners can fall into financial distress. Because of leverage, total losses can exceed the size of the market itself. It's like a minefield. Banks running from panic start stepping on mines.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“While there's nothing new about financial panics, the role of AI/GPT is new and makes matters exponentially worse. That's not a criticism of AI which works as intended. It's a criticism of humans who don't understand the tool, over-rely on it, and allow it far too much autonomy in the trading process.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“People like to risk pennies to win dollars.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“No investor can have a successful career without a sufficient understanding of fear and keeping it in check.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“An investment business has certain risks, and your job as an investor is not to eliminate all risks but to manage and minimize them.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Don’t be fearful of risks. Understand them, and manage and minimize them to an acceptable level.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“No investment is without risks, and no opportunity is guaranteed. Nothing is certain. And if somebody claims it, stay away from that person.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“FEAR OF FAILURE IS BORN FROM THE LACK OF REQUIRED SKILLS!”

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Book:Your Last Step To Fast Financial Freedom

Source: Your Last Step To Fast Financial Freedom

“In general, markets have well-known inefficiencies. One is that transactions do not take into account the effect on others who are not party to them. These so-called externalities can be huge. That is particularly so in the case of financial institutions. Their task is to take risks, and if well managed, to ensure that potential losses to themselves will be covered. To themselves. Under capitalist rules, it is not their business to consider the cost to others. Risk is underpriced, because systemic risk is not priced into decisions. That leads to repeated crisis, naturally. This inherent deficiency of markets is well known.”

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Book:Hopes and Prospects

Source: Hopes and Prospects

“GPT surpasses all ... when it comes to conversation, research, and writing. ... creating an algo[rithm] that sells stocks based on a large training set of materials, correlations to past crises, and commonsense heuristics aimed at not being the last one out of a burning barn is trivial. The danger ... is not in the single system but in the resonance of millions of similar systems doing the same thing at the same time. No science fiction is needed.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“... A bank run never involves just one bank, however large. ... Bank runs are not about capital ratios and liquidity. They're about confidence and psychology.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a bailout of over fifty thousand SVB depositors with over $170 billion in deposits. It was a bailout of SVB's customers, it's employees, their suppliers, and the entire high-tech startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley and around the world.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“This ... the largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a bailout of over fifty thousand SVB depositors with over $170 billion in deposits. It was a bailout of SVB's customers, it's employees, their suppliers, and the entire high-tech startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley and around the world.”

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Book:MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“Leveraging is not evil but must be used with extreme caution and care. You must understand that over-leveraging is the prime reason for all market blowups.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“it is not a calculated risk if you haven’t calculated it.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“The perceived risk and actual risk are two different things.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Cash is a debt instrument issued by a sovereign government, and all debt instruments are subject to the creditworthiness of their issuers, so is cash.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“Your investment in a bank account is as secure as your bank is. If your bank goes bankrupt, so does your investment.”

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Author:Naved Abdali

“The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.”

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Author:Nouriel Roubini

“The trouble is that the risks that are being hedged very well by new financial securities are financial risks. And it appears to me that the real things you want to hedge are real risks, for example, risks in innovation. The fact is that you'd like companies to be able to take bigger chances. Presumably one obstacle to successful R&D, particularly when the costs are large, are the risks involved.”

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Author:Kenneth Arrow

“I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.”

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Author:Paul Collier

“The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.”

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Author:George Soros

“The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems”

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Author:Timothy Geithner

“Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.”

“I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard