“As with all derivatives, these tools were to offer a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it.” — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase. — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination. — Abraham Zaleznik Copy Share Image
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until… — Raoul Dufy Copy Share Image
Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable…until they lose everything.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and… — John Hull Copy Share Image
The model used by Wall Street to price trillions of dollar's worth of derivatives thought of the financial world as an orderly,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
![“Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.” quote by Wen Jiabao](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a3/wen-jiabao-24155_consumption_inappropriate-macro-economic-policies-in_572641.jpg)
![“Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d3/charlie-munger-458_accountants_everyone-caved-adopted-loose-accounting_1383135.jpg)
![“This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd8/rush-limbaugh-28_capitalist_this-guy-steve-lerner-is-pure-100-anti-c_188927.jpg)
![“The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/628/charlie-munger-458_acquisition_the-beauty-of-a-financial-institution-is_1034580.jpg)