Felix Rohatyn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Doe #Employment #Able
The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Children #Years #Europe
I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Believe #Profit #Capitalist
Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Dirty #Hands #People
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Art #Skepticism #Needed
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Business #Years #Mba
Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#New York #Tired #Persistence
Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Book #Reading #Grandchildren
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Government #Democracy #Half
I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#Love #Sex #Thinking

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