Ramune Piekautaite Quotes & Sayings

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative. — Laurie Graham

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life. — Gary Weiss

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. — Augustus William Hare

Words build bridges into unexplored regions. — Adolf Hitler

In sum, economists (and those who listened to them) became overconfident in their preferred models of the moment: markets are efficient, financial innovation improves the risk-return trade-off, self-regulation works best, and government intervention is ineffective and harmful. They forgot about the other models. There was too much Fama, too little Shiller. The economics of the profession may have been fine, but evidently there was trouble with its psychology and sociology. — Dani Rodrik