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In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list… — John Lanchester
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. — John Lanchester
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed;… — Alan Greenspan
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and… — John Templeton
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who… — Alan Greenspan
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett
The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a… — Warren Buffett
Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still… — Larry Rosenberg
There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds. — Alexander Elder
We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition… — Arthur Levitt Jr
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do. — David Dreman
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will… — George Soros
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for… — James Grant
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work. — Robert J. Eaton
Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at… — Victor Sperandeo
Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it… — William Eckhardt
One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and… — Richard Driehaus
I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor. — Larry Hite

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