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
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 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
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
“... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification;… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior… — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact… — John Hull Copy Share Image
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil:… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I was named Margaret Yvonne. Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was… — Yvonne De Carlo Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show… — Charlie Munger 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. 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)
![“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)
![“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated]…” quote by Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a39/norman-mailer-839_aliens_we-divorced-ourselves-from-the-materials_880092.jpg)
