Securities Quotes

59 Securities quotes by 50 unique authors

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business… — Benjamin Graham
To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no… — John Thain
Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud. — Don Nickles
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance… — Ron Chernow
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities. — Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. — Preet Bharara
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies,… — Preet Bharara
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now,… — Muriel Siebert
In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe. — Robert C. Solomon
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. — Billy Connolly
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. — Daniel Kahneman
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their… — Lysander Spooner
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to… — Matt Taibbi
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I… — Victor Hugo
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules… — Mary Schapiro
For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch… — Suze Orman
I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities. — Kevin Mitnick
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor… — Jed S. Rakoff
Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how,… — Jed S. Rakoff

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