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Your credit score affects the interest rates you're offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in…

— Suze Orman

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Millions of Americans have bad credit because of mistakes from credit agencies, and it can ruin lives, stopping people from getting a job or…

— Brian Schatz

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

— Joichi Ito

I pay higher premiums because my speeding points spell 'recklessness' to the insurance company, but you can't imagine how risk-averse I am at the…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“Employers, for example, are increasingly using credit scores to evaluate potential hires. Those who pay their bills promptly, the thinking goes, are more likely…

— Cathy O'Neil

“The best way to ensure that you have a good credit rating – no matter what your income - is to spend less than…

— Rob Kosberg

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what…

— Richard Thaler

Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of…

— Thomas Sowell

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

— Emerson Fittipaldi

Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and…

— Paul Arden

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

— Fareed Zakaria