Derivatives Quotes

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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

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.

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

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.

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

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

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

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

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.

If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down. There's a winner and a loser. It's like betting on a horserace.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

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

Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.