Attention Quote by Warren Buffett

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we use lots…

— Warren Buffett

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like…

— James Chanos

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those…

— Alan Greenspan

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

— Warren Buffett

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

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to…

— Ben Bernanke

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the…

— Charlie Munger

I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who…

— Kenneth Arrow

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning…

— Alan Greenspan

What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including…

— Paul Singer

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have…

— Alan Greenspan