Derivatives Quotes

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives…

— John L. Casti

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,…

— Philipp Meyer

I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work…

— Whit Stillman

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

— Charles Hermite

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

— Alexis Ohanian

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

— Allen W. Wood

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

— Julia Child

We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later…

— George Soros

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to…

— Charlie Munger

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,…

— Max Planck

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth…

— Annia Ciezadlo

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything…

— James Berardinelli

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only…

— Anonymous

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from…

— John Milton

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the…

— Myron Scholes

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system.…

— Rush Limbaugh

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you…

— John Ratzenberger

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are…

— William S. Burroughs

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category.…

— Robert F. Engle

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

— Mary Timony

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur…

— Gregory Bateson

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

— Jim Himes