"If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility."

-- Niall Ferguson

#Emotional Quotes #Roots Quotes #Swings Quotes

“All language is a popularity contest.”
“We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.”
“It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.”
“In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.”
“Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.”
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
“In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.”
“Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.”

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