Quote by Basil Peters

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on…

— Steve Case

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

— Dana White

I think that survivorship bias, the survivorship bias is something I'm very acutely familiar with because of investing.

— Tim Ferriss

When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.

— David Lichtenstein

Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the…

— Warren Buffett

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

“Gambling has been fed by knowledge that, if disaster struck, someone else—borrowers, investors, taxpayers—would end up bearing at least some of the losses,” wrote…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a…

— Steve Jurvetson

I say...if you have dreams dream big swing for the fences.

— Gee Linder

“As VCs invest more and more money in each company, they have to wait longer and longer before they can exit.”

— Basil Peters

Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

— Calvin Ayre

Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General…

— Warren Buffett