Bans Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bans Pay Pay the price Risk Risk taking Should
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“The solutions to this systemic risk overhang are surprisingly straightforward. The immediate tasks would be to break up large banks and ban most derivatives.… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that. — Andrew Ng 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
Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need banking. I mean, right now, there are so many places in America where the banks are not doing what they need to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Governments aren't going to go away; banks aren't going to go away. — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities. — Chris Larsen 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
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one`s religion. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently,… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Banning guns, drugs, alcohol, premarital sex, political incorrectness, and gay marriage hasn't worked. We should ban Life. So long as even one of us… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of… — Robert Lewis Hinkle Copy Share Image
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing… — Ken Calvert Copy Share Image
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image