Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
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My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
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I don't watch things like 'Jeepers Creepers' or 'Final Destination 53.' I really like more of the psychological thrillers, like 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Shining' and 'Don't Look Now.'
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.
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I walk beyond town, many of these nights, to stand under the high autumnal stars, look upward and wonder.
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Easter's nearly here, now.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
