Bank Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bank Every Fails Makes Out Safer System
We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the… — James Grant Copy Share Image
From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I have no interest in bailing out anybody, quite frankly, and I think banks have to suffer every dollar of loss if they make… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside. — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
Remember, your bank will never call and ask you to hand over account numbers or say you must swap money from one account to… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
I couldn't be working in a bank and launch a clothing line. It's only because cinema gave me a lot of access that I… — Vijay Deverakonda Copy Share Image
If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about… — Jeroen Dijsselbloem Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest… — Rashad Evans Copy Share Image
I might have added zeros to my bank balance and followers to my Instagram account, but apart from that, I still lead a middle-class… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal… — Lorde Copy Share Image