"If you look at the economy at the moment, the biggest risk we face is institutions not taking enough risk," Mr. Geithner said.
I tell my board that if we succeed at everything we do, we're not taking enough risk, and if we're not taking enough risk, we're clearly not doing everything in our power to maximize impact for the poor or vulnerable.
"If things don't fail," he said, "it means we are not taking enough risk".
(If there are no losses on individual positions from time to time, odds are he isn't taking enough risk to generate attractive returns).
"If small-business lenders are experiencing only 1% of bad debts, it seems to me the banks aren't taking enough risk," says Paul Cunningham, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Prague.The banks operating in former Yugoslavia face a special challenge.
According to a person briefed on the cause of their exit who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak, Mr. Kronthal and Mr. Lengsfield were let go because they were told by senior executives at Merrill that they were not taking enough risk.
If they aren't, they're probably not taking enough risk.
If we don't have any of these mistakes, we're just not taking enough risk".
If all trials didn't fail, we wouldn't be taking enough risk".
If no startups go under in good times and bad times entrepreneurs and investors likely aren't taking enough risk.
El-Erian's strategy is a balancing act designed to avoid the next Argentina while taking enough risk to rack up decent returns.
