Derivatives Quotes

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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we use lots of… — Warren Buffett
There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about… — James Berardinelli
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand… — Ben Bernanke
The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner… — Charlie Munger
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? — Unknown Author
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier,… — Mary Balogh
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments… — Thomas Berry
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. — Steven Strogatz
The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals… — Edward S. Herman
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. — Mary Oliver
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even… — Kenneth Turan
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h… — Mary Daly
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead
I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke… — Harry Markopolos
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own… — D. H. Lawrence
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to… — John Milton
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my… — Anthony Storr
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton

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