“Most people wander through life, carelessly taking whatever risk crosses their paths without compensation, but never consciously accepting extra risk to pick up the money and other good things lying all around them.”

—  Aaron C. Brown

Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 3, Finance Basics, p. 67

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American financial analyst 1956

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