Rogoff Quotes & Sayings

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it. — Chuck Todd

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries. — Kenneth Rogoff

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before. — Kenneth Rogoff

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society. — Kenneth Rogoff

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. — Oliver Burkeman

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status. — Kenneth Rogoff

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung
found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito — C. G. Jung

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential facts of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex world wide states that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. — H.G.Wells

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care. — J.G. Holland

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit. — Christian Slater

To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

It is vital for Russia to normalize relations with the rest of the world. You shouldn't isolate your economy — Kenneth Rogoff

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are. — Kenneth Rogoff

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. — Kenneth Rogoff

Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems. — Kenneth Rogoff

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition. — Joseph Joubert

Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place — Kenneth Rogoff

Far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries. — Kenneth Rogoff

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew. — Kenneth Rogoff

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. — Kenneth Rogoff

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth. — Kenneth Rogoff

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect. — Kenneth Rogoff

The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess. — Kenneth Rogoff

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it — Kenneth Rogoff

The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again ... The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work. — Martin Wolf

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper. — Kenneth Rogoff

There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists. — Kenneth Rogoff

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide. — Kenneth Rogoff

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions. — Kenneth Rogoff

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing. — Kenneth Rogoff

The quantity of the mixture of butter oil and cod liver oil required is quite small, half a teaspoonful three times a day with meals is sufficient to control wide-spread tooth decay when used with a diet that is low in sugar and starches and high in foods providing the minerals, particularly phosphorus. A teaspoonful a day divided between two or three meals is usually adequate to prevent dental caries and maintain a high immunity; it will also maintain freedom from colds and a high level of health in general — Anonymous

Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that. — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Russia depends on natural resources way too much. Russian economy is not diversified enough — Kenneth Rogoff