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We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

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

People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.