I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

Value investing is risk aversion.

— 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…

— 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

“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.”

— Cristina Nehring

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin…

— James Cameron

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

— Seth Klarman

Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To…

— Seth Klarman

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

— Paul Singer

If you have lived with the fear of failure all your life, you tend to erect a window of risk aversion. In every opportunity,…

— Prakah Iyer

“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat…

— Suzette Boon

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much…

— Jim Mattis

“IT may seem counterintuitive to use uncertainty to quell volatility. But a small amount of uncertainty surrounding short-term interest rates may act much like…

— Anonymous

In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point…

— Pierfrancesco Favino

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

— Chaim Potok