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English origin
English originThe bigger the risk, the bigger the reward
Meaning: Greater rewards require greater risks.
Origin: The link between risk and reward is a basic idea of finance. Theodore J. Hoover's The Economics of Mining (1948) described speculation as offering "the hopes of high reward in return for the incurring of high risk," but the proverb form has no traced first use.
Equivalents in German
German: Wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt (literally: He who does not dare does not win)
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