A Quote by Bert Lance

I'm a futures man.

Bert Lance

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Futures Man

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Bert Lance
American - Businessman
June 3, 1931 - August 15, 2013

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

Myron Scholes

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

Jamais Cascio

The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271

Laurie Halse Anderson

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

Kevin Williamson

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Sebastian Faulks

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Dennis Gabor

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

William Gibson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

John Desmond Bernal

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

Gertrude Stein

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.