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.

— Warren Buffett

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

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

“As with all derivatives, these tools were to offer a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it.”

— Gillian Tett

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go…

— Jack Welch

“Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why…

— Frank Smith

We don't want to damage cars. People work hard and save money to buy these things.

— Chris Harris

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

— Walter Schloss