Quotes About Financial Leverage

#1. Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. they sought, from their earliest days, to use their financial leverage over individual states to improve the legal and political position of the Jews living there.

Niall Ferguson

#3. I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?

Toni Braxton

#4. Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Aesop

#5. Presently, I really admire Rebecca Warren, the artist. She continues to keep creating wonderful sculpture. And I met her, and she is really cool.

Russell Tovey

#6. The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

Charlie Munger

#7. Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

Alex Berenson

#8. Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

#9. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.

Christopher Paolini

#10. Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Paul Singer

#11. Why, that is why the gods made whores for imps like me.

George R R Martin

#12. Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

Avicenna

#13. Our apprehensions were over what we might find, or fail to find, at the end of our journey; for silence continued to answer all calls despatched to the camp.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. An 'eye for an eye' shall leave you all blind.
It's sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring.

Michelle Horst

#15. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage,

Seth Klarman

#16. The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

Diane Coyle