Risk Quotes

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

David Einhorn
- Risk
Even after we compensated for confounding factors like family history of depression, coffee drinking, or their year in medical school, we still came out with a very clear change in risk.

Luke Ford
- Family
- School
- History

A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.

Jerome Powell
- Risk
On climbs, there is a general way we manage fear. We look at things objectively, separating out perceived risk from real risk. You can really bring down the level of fear by knowing the real risks and setting aside the others. You also know that panicking just makes things worse.

Jimmy Chin
- Real
- Fear
- Risk
The Bush administration knows everything about him and they desperately want him in there. They aren't taking a risk. They know he's an ideologue.

Ed Garvey
A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

Homer Hickam
- Men
- Soul
- Darkness
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner
- People
- Stop
- Learning
The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

Bill Clinton
- Debt
- Finance
- Recession