"I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth â€” one shred of evidence."

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Source : "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

Paul Volcker

#Giving Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Growth Quotes

“If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.”

Source : Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.63, Springer
“Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.”
“How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.”
“Accusations against gay schoolteachers figure really prominently in liberal news headlines, because they're attention-grabbing and ratings-getting. They last a news cycle and go away and then you never hear about them again.”
“The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.”
“My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.”
“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”
“I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?”

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