Counterparty Quotes

#1. For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.

Coreen T. Sol

#2. The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

Warren Buffett

#3. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Samuel Morse

#4. I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Joyce Cary

#5. I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

Daniel Woodrell

#6. inclusion + engagement = execution muscle

Susan Scott

#7. If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Sylvester Stallone

#8. I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.

Joe Cornish

#9. My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.

Bill Watterson

#10. You may be my new princess. But your mama is my queen.

Rachel Van Dyken

#11. I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.

Margaret Way

#12. There are lots of trips out there. It's even possible to become a conference groupie, going from one seminar to another and being a Beautiful Evolved Human Being until you start making the people around you want to throw up.

Michael Crichton

#13. I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

Bindi Irwin

#14. An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti