Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
Currency regimes in the past were always destroyed by volatility. So sooner or later, people desire a currency that is stable. — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward.… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The researchers looked deeper into these observations, in hopes of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the high evolutionary rate and extraordinary… — Michael G Cordingley Copy Share Image
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image