Alvin E. Roth Quotes

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

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• Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.

  

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• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

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• We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

  

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• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

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• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

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• Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

  

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• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

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• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

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• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
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• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

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• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

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• If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

  

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• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

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• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

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• What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  

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• Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit.

  

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• Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

  

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• For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.

  

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• My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

  

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