Bruce Kovner Quotes

Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half.

Bruce Kovner

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Year
  • Lived
  • Canada

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Great
  • Style
  • Moss

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Calm
  • Events
  • Quiet

• Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Bad

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Country
  • High
  • Lies

• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Responsibility

• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Blunt

• Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Risk