Funny Hedge Fund Quotes & Sayings

Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector. — Joseph Stiglitz

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived. — Bess Myerson

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes's mother is no more than a stranger to him. A pregnant woman is just a glorified human incubator, Apollo argues, an intravenous bag dripping nutrients through the umbilical cord into her child. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer. — Linda Sue Park

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails. — Richard Rybolt

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it. — Pierre Soulages

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test. — Jack Dorsey

When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community. — Tim Murphy

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor. — Laura Prepon

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. — James Madison

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. — Victor Hugo