Quotes About Options

If the stock's market price is at $42 and the investor has a put option, which is the option to sell a stock at $48, that option suddenly becomes very valuable—in some cases, much more valuable than the stock itself.

options have been used as insurance policies, which is why most people buy options.

When I said to my broker, "Write a naked put option," I was saying, "I want to sell options on stock I do not own.

In the vocabulary of options traders, writing means selling.

writing means selling in the world of insurance and in the world of options.

History proves that 85 percent of all options expire without being exercised.

I used the term naked in front of put option because I did not own the stock.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

One of the first things, Checking Out taught me was how amazing the beginning of a trip could be. How there was nothing at all like the realization, early in one's travels, that all options are readily available.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

One room, two beds, babe. That's the best I can do.

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Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.

But that wouldn't happen to us. I'd read a book of John Barth's, The End of the Road, and I'd absorbed its most important lesson. When you have to make a choice, and all else fails, take the one on the left.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

These are the two possibilities for human life.

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another. JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

Can I give her a choice about when to do something, rather than insisting upon "right now." ("Do you want to take your bath before your TV show or right after?")

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")