"When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good."

-- Robert F. Engle

#Thinking Quotes #Impact Quotes #Risk Quotes

“What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.”
“I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.”
“I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.”
“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”

Source : Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin
“The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.”
“Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.”
“The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.”
“Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.”

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