Difficult task Quote by Joel Greenblatt

We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of…

— Charlie Munger

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the…

— Charlie Munger

We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this…

— Seth Klarman

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

— Peter Lynch

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational…

— Whitney Tilson

Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even…

— Simon Sinek

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

— Kelly Evans

“In the short run, however, stock returns are very volatile, driven by changes in earnings, interest rates, risk, and uncertainty, as well as psychological…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a…

— Benjamin Graham

Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the…

— Gil Blake

“Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is somethimg that you can put a price on…Uncertainty, on the other…

— Nate Silver

With volatility, you have the potential for greater gains but also greater losses.

— Edmund Moy