Myron Scholes Quotes

#1. Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

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#2. Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

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#3. The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

#4. There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Kathleen Kennedy

#5. Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

Ben Lerner

#6. 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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#7. Every side of a coin has another side.

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#8. My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.

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#9. She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.

Douglas Clegg

#10. My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.

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#11. From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

Joseph Fiennes

#12. I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

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#13. From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

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#14. Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

Andrei Codrescu

#15. Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

O.J. Simpson

#16. The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Henry Fielding

#17. Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

Alexander Payne

#18. I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.

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#19. I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Thomas Perry

#20. The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Cynthia Kenyon

#21. Celaena pulled another book toward her and grinned. It was as if someone had read her mind. It was a large black volume entitled The Walking Dead in tarnished silver letters. Thankfully, the captain didn't see the title before she opened it.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

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#23. Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?

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#24. Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

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#25. If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

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#26. My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

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#27. A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

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#28. If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

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#29. I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

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#30. All models have faults - that doesn't mean you can't use them as tools for making decisions.

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