Bombs Quote by Warren Buffett Download Open image “I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.” — Warren Buffett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombs Deals Derivatives Economic Economic system Economic systems Party Time Time bomb Views
People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk. — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative,… — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“People assume time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage. — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
“Time travel is real, and does not require any speculative physics. It just requires a culture with clearly defined market segments.” — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates. — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every relationship after… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image