"I'm terrified of taking risks to the point where I'm not achieving anything in my life."
"There's an institutional timidity that I think creeps in in a lot of these offices."
"Safe returns are better than giant gains that go away overnight."
"Trading breakout or bailout: if it doesn't work, I get out of the way."
"Don't want to bet the family farm on crypto."
"Say no risks, play it safe, stand in line. Is that really living though?"
"I would be the same way, why would you take any more chances with what like all of that just would not want anything to do with it ever again exactly."
"Taking no action feels safe, but it's crucial to create urgency in sales."
"I've learned that being wrong hurts more than being right does, so I don't want to fool around with it."
"Ships are a lot safer when they don't leave harbor."
"This is not a pretty setup and this is not a time to speculate."
"A big company that needs to make a buck is not going to take a risk and make something weird that they're not certain is going to sell."
"When you have Graham's level of wealth, your goal is then not necessarily to risk that money as much as it is to protect what you have."
"Humans basically want to be controlled and the easiest way to do this is giving them shitty lives that they hate but don't have the will to abandon to get the things that they desire because they don't want to face the risk."
"Understanding that if people are worried about the economy, they're going to flock to safer investments."
"Disney is never willing to go to uncomfortable."
"The first rule of investing is to not to lose money."
"We don't want to lose what we've invested into."
"Most of you are more afraid of losing money than you are to go out and make it."
"All I care about is not losing money; protect yourself and average down to a better price."
"I just want to secure something in order to protect the investment."
"Let's make questionable choices, not stupid ones."
"An excessive commitment to safety really causes psychological problems."
"Never ever ever buy into resistance. That's the worst way to ever approach the markets."
"Taking too little risk, you lose out on opportunity. Diminishing returns cost and stay poor."
"There is not a mentally sane human being on the planet that would drive a van filled with tanks of gasoline into a forest fire."
"Once you have something to lose, that's when [ ... ] around just starts to seem a lot less appealing."
"Betting against the end of the world is a sucker game."
"Capital preservation is the name of this game."
"Men often lean towards what seems like a safer route."
"The market hates uncertainty it absolutely hates it."
"I'm playing so passively because I don't want to die like I would normally chase so I would chase for that kill so hard normal GBA would but I just I don't want to die anyway."
"Fear of losing money causes us to make poor decisions."
"Fear of failure is a significant mental barrier that can hinder your path to financial success. This fear often leads to a risk-averse mindset causing you to avoid opportunities that involve any degree of uncertainty or risk."
"Most people are just too damn scared to go for anything."
"Why am I gonna risk going out? I'm good over here."
"This is not a risk that I'm willing to take."
"They're obsessed with reliving past glories and safe options."
"I don't want to light up the other farm because that would require me going into a place where there's lots of death."
"Nobody's buying puts right now, nobody's hedging."
"The comfort zone is one of the most dangerous places to occupy."
"I don't want to take the risk of getting hurt more than I've gotten hurt already."
"We came too late and we didn't want to risk missing the last trolley."
"We've never been a risk, we've never gotten in any kind of trouble on any other platform besides an accidental copyright."
"Trading is risky. Trade in a simulator before putting real money on the line."
"There was always this safety first in my whole life."
"You can't miss a shot if you don't take one."
"They'd rather lose out on you than to just take a risk."
"He's not interested in the numbers game though I guess he's playing safe."
"It's better for you to take profits and be happy with what you got than to lose it all."
"Fear of making a mistake drives a lot of decisions in B2B."
"I'm going to bed before y'all come up with another plan to get us killed or worse expelled."
"For me, I'm not willing to take a risk on something so vital as the steering."
"We want to take the shortcut and not be in danger."
"Most people are more concerned about not losing money than they are about making it."
"The loss aversion is the major cause of risk aversion."
"I like to play it safe I'm not gonna waste my money on food I don't think I want"
"Loss aversion... people jump at the chance to avoid it."
"They prefer what is safe and what is known to them over something that is new."
"Loss aversion: Emotionally, a loss weighs about twice that of a similar gain."
"She knew that it was better to play it safe."
"If you want to be safe, stay with your job."
"Well, there, lie nemesis, the late Mr. Scarface Malone, otherwise known as a guy who never took chances."
"I don't want to fake it till I make it like I really don't and I think a lot of people believe that works and the mistakes of being wrong, the stakes are higher on being wrong."
"There'll be winners and losers when all is said and done and it'll be the ones too stuffy to see a good deal who miss out."
"The most dangerous thing you can do for yourself is nothing."
"I don't want to try launch control. I think for the reason that like the car's tuned and all and now with like the transmission tune, I just don't want to break anything."
"I think that being in this environment again, was where she had a bad experience and she doesn't want to put herself through that risk again."
"I'm the kind of person who thinks, first of all, why take a risk?"
"And if they don't, they are essentially gambling on the precious metal markets. And I know for a fact that a large number of businesses don't like to gamble. The security of stability is one of the most important things that any business will say."
"If somebody is incredibly worried--someone's not very worried about the standard deviation and cares a lot about expectation, they're going to have a flatter indifference curve."
"Even dictators don't want to commit suicide."
"I don't like to gamble 'cause I don't like to lose."
"Banks with more independent board members take fewer risks."
"It's actually nice having nothing to prove. You take less chances that way."
"At the end of the day, I think what people are looking for is a for sure bet without any risk because it's scary."
"Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett play a game where they minimize failure at all costs, wanting to have an incredibly high batting average and minimize risk as much as possible."
"This is not the time to be gambling or taking risks, this is the time to protect everything that you have."
"I'm just too scared of consequences."
"I think I'm the most conservative investor on earth in the sense that I absolutely hate losing money."
"Comfort and security are great, but they're also a bad thing because they will keep you from taking risks."
"It should be something that you do quickly, that you don't invest a lot of money in, and you don't take a lot of risk for."
"I like boring markets; I don't like taking too much risk with my money."
"I'm too scared; I'll never put myself in a position where I can go busto."
"What kind of people are attracted by the idea of tenure? The answer must be risk-averse people."
"People tend to prefer an uncomfortable routine over any sort of risk."
"The more risk-averse the world is becoming, the more you want to put in these practices to minimize your risk."
"Individuals do not consider expected value, they consider expected utility, and individuals are risk averse."
"The anti-corruption campaign... makes it very difficult for any local official to do innovative policies because any deviation can get you into trouble."
"I don't want to bet my life on it."
"As an investor who's relatively risk-averse, it always makes sense to be more Blue Chip focused, especially when you're in an environment like we're in now."
"I'm really a fan of conservative and very safe systems."
"Keeping your money safe and preserving your capital is obviously always the number one goal in trading."
"I don't gamble because I don't take any bet where the odds are against me."
"Loss aversion refers to people's tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains."
"I would rather miss a trade than to lose a trade."
"The euro dollar search charge is essentially the risk aversion component which is a reflection of the fundamentals."
"I just don't want to roll those dice anymore."
"Most investors are risk averse; they definitely want to obtain higher returns, but they are potentially willing to sacrifice some of the reward potential for a smaller downside."
"We were never daring enough to see it like that. I think Sri Lanka always played it safe."
"That doesn't make you irrational, just makes you human; you're risk-averse."
"Preserve capital. When in doubt, get the [__] out."
"People are risk-averse; they tend to prefer certainly getting a certain amount of money over a lottery."
"As a bank, we don't want to be giving out primarily loans to people who are going to default on them."
"I'd rather be safe than sorry any day of the week."
"The more risk-averse you are, the larger the premium you're going to demand."
"We're trying to buy an asset that pays us a yield because we want that yield, but we don't want price exposure to the asset."
"It's why so much content is so generic and derivative and formulaic because everyone's afraid to take a risk."
"I love gambling, but I hate taking a risk."
"Companies are so absurdly, pathologically, unreasonably risk-averse."
"My number one priority for my portfolio is minimizing my downside risk and positioning myself for safe, sustainable growth."
"They are literally stuck in all areas of life because they are refusing to take a risk."
"I'm not willing to take a risk, I'm not willing to take a chance on someone I don't trust."
"You want to put in the work but you may be feeling at the end of the day you're having a hard time taking any risks."