Quotes About Options

Everything in life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid these two things no matter how hard we try. The first is that we must die. Death is an absolute certainty, and the second thing we have no choice about is that we must live until we die. Now understand this - everything else in your life that you think you have to do, or are forced to do, is a choice.

We want to see the options we refuse to pursue; we like to know what lurks on the other side of the door we never open.

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The way you keep software soft is to leave as many options open as possible, for as long as possible. What are the options that we need to leave open? They are the details that don't matter.

What you want in warfare is room to maneuver. Tight corners spell death. Having enemies gives you options. You can play them off against each other, make one a friend as a way of attacking the other, on and on.

The essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps. It is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than your enemy does...True strategy is being able to do strategy A, B, or C, depending on the circumstances.

grasping at Option A as the single right answer, true strategy is positioning yourself to be able to do A, B, or C depending

To separate yourself from the mechanical and reactive types, you need to get rid of a common misconception: the essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps; it is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than the enemy does.

Pero no había otra alternativa. A no ser la ignorancia, y eso no lo aceptaba.

That's the thing about women, Juilin. If one says no, there's always another will say yes.

Events shaped men, perhaps, but they did not remove alternatives of choice.

whatever dull job he's stuck with—and they are all, sooner or later, dull—and, just to keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he's likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person and much less of an object

Take your time. There is more than one good deal.

they could minimize their risk exposure by using options.

Hundreds of years ago in ancient Japan, Japanese farmers began using options to protect the price of their rice crops.

she was saying, "Options are risky." To me, not protecting your assets is risky. To me, being financially ignorant is risky. Knowing how to use options to protect your paper assets is easy and not that hard to

now she was saying, "Options are risky." To me, not protecting your assets is risky. To me, being financially ignorant is risky.

Knowing how to use options to protect your paper assets is easy and not that hard to do.

When the trend of the market is down, the sophisticated investor will use put options not only to make money, but also to protect the value of her stock in case prices begin to fall.

The loss on the stock has been recaptured with a gain in the put.

There are sophisticated investors who never buy or sell stocks. They trade only in options.

Investing in stocks is too slow. I can make much more money with less money investing in options.

if the price of the investor's stock is $50 per share, a sophisticated investor may have a call option placed at $52 per share and a put option in place at $48 per share.

If the market suddenly goes up to $62 per share, the investor has the right to still buy his or her shares at $52. If the market goes down to $42, the investor has the right to sell his or her shares at $48, minimizing the loss.