We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we… — Warren Buffett 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
In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives. — Alan Greenspan 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
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
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
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened… — Charlie Munger 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
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais 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
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
Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives… — Peter Brook 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
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
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
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
“... 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
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
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
