Long Quote by Vince Cable

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the…

— Vince Cable

Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage,

— Seth Klarman

Crisis creates leverage to change.

— Bruce Rauner

People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at…

— Howard Warren Buffett

What happens is the market really booms when people really leverage and they really leverage when they make a lot of money.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our…

— Warren Stephens

Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their…

— Seth Klarman

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to…

— John L. Casti

We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting…

— Warren Buffett

The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other…

— Carmen Reinhart

When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

— Barry Ritholtz

When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net…

— Seth Klarman