Value At Risk Quotes

#1. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

David Einhorn

#2. Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when experience has shown them that far too many solutions come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success.

Jeff Thull

#3. If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.

Kamal Ravikant

#4. Value investing is risk aversion.

Seth Klarman

#5. Remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.

Niall Ferguson

#6. If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

#7. Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#8. Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

Dale E. Jones

#9. The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Roman Jakobson

#10. What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

Seth Klarman

#13. Any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger. But to understand the risk, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then to summon the strength to face them down - that in my opinion is the most commendable form of valour

Robert Harris

#14. In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Seth Klarman

#15. We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Seth Godin

#16. While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

Seth Klarman

#17. Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Karen Blixen

#18. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#19. Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

Michael Lewis

#20. She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.

Carlos Fuentes

#21. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

Lisa Morgan

#22. The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

Warren Buffett

#23. Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

Jawwad Farid

#24. The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure.

Seth Godin

#25. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.

Pearl Zhu

#26. RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Lisa Gansky

#27. Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.

Bev Perdue

#28. Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.

Alan Keith

#29. Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.

Robin Sharma

#30. You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#31. Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

Reg Revans

#32. Most people overestimate risk, failure and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.

Deepak Chopra

#33. The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

John Ortberg

#34. The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant ... it's the excuses that change.

Rik Leaf

#35. We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Richard Black

#36. We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Jewel

#37. My children to enjoy life, to value themselves, to be risk takers, to become self-reliant, to be free from stress and anxiety, to have peaceful lives, to celebrate their present moments, to experience a lifetime of wellness, to

Wayne W. Dyer