"Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought."

-- Robert F. Engle

#People Quotes #Risk Quotes #Bankers Quotes

“A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”

Source : Robert Baden-Powell (1918). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.45, Cedar Fort
“I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.”
“He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.”
“Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it”
“You notice that all the minorities are going to be voting for Barack Obama because he's a minority. He's going to be their hero; he's going to be their white knight if you will, or in this case black knight.”
“I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.”
“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Booklassic

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