Doubt Quote by Nate Silver

“The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel securities, subject…

— Nate Silver

“The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel securities, subject…

— Nate Silver

“Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is somethimg that you can put a price on…Uncertainty, on the other…

— Nate Silver

“Here’s the key to understanding risk: it’s largely a matter of opinion. It’s hard to be definitive about risk, even after the fact. You”

— Howard Marks

“An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of…

— Robert F. Engle

“Risk is incredibly important to investors. It’s also ephemeral and unmeasurable. All of this makes it very hard to recognize, especially when emotions are…

— Howard Marks

“taking a risk necessitated a willingness to deal with the mess created by the risk.”

— Ed Catmull

“Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“Putting yourself at risk...that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.”

— Amanda Howells

“Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk.”

— Darryl Webb