Risk Quotes

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The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It… — Unknown Author
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had… — Paul Collier
We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good. — Jeff Bezos
You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve.… — Unknown Author
If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life. — Robin Sharma
The easy way out usually leads back in. — Peter Senge
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. — Guy Fawkes
I have a right to be blind sometimes. — Horatio Nelson
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have… — Unknown Author
It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine. — John G. Stumpf
High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many… — Franco Modigliani
I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else. — Yanni
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Unknown Author
The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day. — Unknown Author
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. — Richard Thaler
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Unknown Author
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. — Malcolm Gladwell
If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn
I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks. — Unknown Author
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault.… — Warren Buffett
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine

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