Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
-
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
-
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
-
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
-
As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
-
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
-
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
-
I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
-
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
-
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
-
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
-
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
-
I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
-
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
-
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
-
He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
