Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrik Schowitz

If there had been a proper decision to go to war last night then there would have been a drop in risk aversion but instead we are still stumbling in the dark.

Alan Greenspan

We are seeing an evolving new international economy. We are in the process of learning how it works as we are doing it, ... Fortunately, the trauma that came out of the Russian default created so much risk aversion ... we probably have time to be deliberative in determining how the (international monetary) structure ought to be structured.

Anthony Crescenzi

The risk aversion was a touch smaller today, but it was more of a toe-step into the markets that were beaten up badly.

Abraham Lincoln

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Ben Bernanke

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

Francoise Sagan

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.

Arthur Conan

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

John Cairns

The overall low risk aversion environment means that these risks aren't being priced correctly.

Anthony Crescenzi

When risk aversion is declining, money will flow out of the safe-haven Treasury market into riskier assets, ... High-yield bonds have increased in price in the past week; holders of junk bonds are doing well right now.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Richard Russo

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

Robin Williams

Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

Robin Hobb

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Vincent Tan

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Willa Holland

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

Willa Holland

Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

Warren Buffett

As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

Truman Capote

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

Woody Allen

Life's hard, then you die.

Salman Rushdie

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Vincent Cassel

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Sarah Dessen

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

Saint Augustine

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Wiz Khalifa

Life is once so do right neglect wrongs.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.