Absolute Risk Aversion

Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:

    I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
    Fidel Castro (b. 1926)

    When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
    Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child’s life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play—that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)