Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
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What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
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That would be a simplistic vision of the international market, the Premier League is the league that sells The Premier League broadcast rights for the biggest value and The Premier League doesn't have the best players nor the best clubs. The market for broadcasting rights does not work like this.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
