"A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment."

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Source : "Crash Course". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.

Myron Scholes

#Taken Quotes #Risk Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I did not run away, I walked away by daylightâ€¦.”
“After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.”
“The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.”
“When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me and wanted me to come out to L.A. I wanted to finish high school before doing anything like that. I figured theyâ€™d just forget about me, but they kept after me for two years.”
“It's an amazing confidence boost when you have that swagger of knowing when you pull on the racetrack, all eyes are on you because they know you're the best.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.”
“In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.”

Source : Victor Pelevin (2002). “Homo Zapiens”, p.12, Penguin

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