Relative Risk Aversion

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

    “She went in there to muse on being rid
    Of relative beneath the coffin lid.
    No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I’m a very smart guy. I haven’t a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops ... I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you’ll think of me, I’ll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)