Always Quote by Barry Ritholtz

When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage,

— Seth Klarman

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

— Ed Davey

Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he…

— Benjamin Graham

The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing…

— Peter Cundill

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there…

— Alan Greenspan

“terms. The net effect is that I have created $30,000 in my asset column for which I am paid interest, just like a bank…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on…

— Benjamin Graham

Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.

— Urjit Patel