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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing. -- Ben Horowitz
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes. -- Debbie Stabenow
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. -- Philip Roth
What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way. -- Tobin Bell
Political life loves some volatility. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity. -- John Train
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day. -- Alex Berenson
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established -- George Soros
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. -- Warren Buffett
Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility. -- George Soros
Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price. -- Gordon Brown
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity. -- Tom Peters
Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing, -- William Wilberforce
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued. -- R. Scott Bakker
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it's a company with certain attributes. They're buying because the price is rising. People are playing games not related to any concept at all of what the long-term value of the enterprise is. And they know it. -- Jeremy Grantham
Using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results. -- Charlie Munger
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value -- Jeremy Grantham
Markets love volatility. -- Christine Lagarde
We are facing extreme volatility. -- Carlos Ghosn
My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. -- Tim Kaine
Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility. -- Leon Black
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. -- Ben Stein
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. -- Diane Garnick
I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people. -- Tina Fey
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. -- Daniel Kahneman
Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure. -- Louis Navellier
Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility. -- Barry Ritholtz
Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned. -- John Hull
After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own. -- Kristin Gore
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility. -- Mohamed El-Erian
Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way. -- John Hull
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. -- Debbie Stabenow
We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds. -- Jamie Dimon
Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility. -- Jamie Dimon
Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility. -- David Wessel
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. -- Charlie Munger
In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. -- Fatih Birol
When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented. -- George Soros
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. -- Alex Lemon
We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level. -- Michael LeBoeuf
I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life. -- Steve Maraboli
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand. -- Andrew Sullivan

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