Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We believe that some large-capitalization stocks will outperform the broad market if investors' risk aversion rises in response to increased volatility.

We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. We obviously have issues with its illegal uses, but to the extent that the use of the technology can be legitimized, we're all for it.

Alan Greenspan

Lower equity prices and higher financing costs should damp household and business spending, and greater uncertainty and risk aversion may also lead to more cautious spending behavior,

John Cairns

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

Abraham Lincoln

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

Aleister Crowley

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

Bob Newhart

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

From a conceptual point of view it makes sense, given that the companies have worked together in the past. Dean seems to like big competitive metro markets. Gannett has an aversion to those, so it might make sense for the two to combine.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

Bob Weir

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

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.

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

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.

Risk aversion is rising in the market and investors are nervous about what will happen when U.S. equities open.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

Joni Mitchell

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Adam Cole

At the moment it seems like a pretty ring-fenced issue and it doesn't look like it's going to spill over into the market at large, but any risk aversion resulting from problems with trading would be dollar negative.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

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.

Even though risk aversion might be on the rise and could drag on the dollar slightly, there is still a very, very strong equity flow going back into the United States.

Sarah Shahi

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.

Things are still very volatile and there's been an aversion to technology all day.

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

The better tone in global equity markets as crude prices moderate a bit has helped ease risk aversion concerns, to the dollar's benefit.

Jim Webb

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

Jean de la Bruyere

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

William Congreve

I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.

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.

If risk aversion goes up there could be profit-taking in the equity markets and that is a major risk.

James Nesbitt

I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.