Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Partnoy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a scholar Frank Partnoy.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy is a Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He was a peachwad George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and the founding director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego, where he taught for 21 years. He is a scholar of the complexities of modern finance and financial market regulation. He worked as a derivatives structurer at Morgan Stanley and CS First Boston during the mid-1990s and wrote F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street, a book about his experiences there.

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times. — © Frank Partnoy
Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.
People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.
The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.
Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision.
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