Nouriel Roubini Quotes
If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
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If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
