Yes its risky no matter how big or small your profit because investment or growing your money will always comes with a risk thats why its advisable to make sure that youre putting your funds in the right investment and you have to make sure that you will have a back up plan incase the first one did not workout.
There are many investments which have a small risk but also give you a large profit over time. If you invest bitcoin in the early of 2017, you would have multiplied your balance for more than 10 times cause the price of bitcoin in January 2017 was only $1000. And at the end of 2017, bitcoin highest price was $20000. And investing in bitcoin is always the safest way in the cryptocurrency market. Here is another example: real estate. House always increase the price years by years. In my country, you can double your balance with a house. Investing money in real estate is one of the safest way to increase the amount of money in my country and I believe that other countries also have the same situation