Derivatives Quotes - Page 6

• My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

  Myron Scholes

  Careers, Risk, Active Management

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• Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

  Dan Harmon

  Television, Democratic, Mediums

  "'Community' Creator Dan Harmon on His Ouster: 'Maybe I am Just a Jerk'" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

  Charles Hermite

  Hands, Evil, Giving

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• But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, America, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.96, Library of America

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• With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Philosophy, Routine, Littles

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• Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

  Alan Greenspan

  Regulation, Unnecessary, Transactions

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books.

  Charlie Munger

  Blessed, Book, Blow

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• The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people get status, etc. - it's impossible to get it back into the bottle.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Book, People

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• To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

  Charlie Munger

  Insult, Accounting, Sewers

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• Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

  Fred Green

  Worry, Watches, Firsts

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• When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young

  Butch Walker

  Years, Sound, Looks

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• But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Pregnancy, Knowing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time but it'll happen as long as you let it. Own your voice, for your voice is your own. Once you know where your voice lives, you no longer have to worry so much about being derivative.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Voice, Long

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• Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Society, Encounters

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Law, Perception, Needs

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• While we're talking about votes, Bernie Sanders is one who voted to deregulate swaps and derivatives in 2000, which contributed to the over-leveraging of Lehman Brothers, which was one of the culprits that brought down the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Brother, Talking, Vote

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Meaning Of Life, Forgotten, Phenomenon

  Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz (2008). “The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy”, p.31, Basic Books

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• To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Character, Mean

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• No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

  Sonny Rollins

  Music, Jazz, Originals

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• The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Criminals, Suggestions

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• There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Party, Moving

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• With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

  Ben Bernanke

  Safety, Use, Incentives

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Goverrnors of the Federal Reserve". U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• 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 corner waiting for a little flame.

  Charlie Munger

  Oxygen, Flames, People

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