Fat Tails Quotes & Sayings

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing. — Ashlee Simpson

She is deranged, but so so playful. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. — William Poundstone

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies. — Elayne Boosler

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. — John Hull

Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware. — Ed Wood

It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends. — Frederick Lenz

LTCM is now a classic case of "fat tails" in finance. Portfolio math mimics diffusion physics - a scattergram of the outcomes from trillions of small random movements maps smoothly onto a bell curve. In well-behaved markets, finance looks much the same. But markets are rarely well-behaved for long, and big deviations from the norm happen very frequently in finance - the finance bell curve, that is, has fat tails. When Russia defaulted on its sovereign bonds in 1998, it was a fat tail for LTCM, and it was on the wrong side of the trade, with very heavy leverage. — Charles R. Morris

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. — Susan B. Anthony

It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out ... I am here to serve your every need, King James. — Shaquille O'Neal

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes

Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action. — Thich Nhat Hanh