Risk Aversion Equal

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

“It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing—nothing.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)