"The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together."

-- Stephane Abrial

#Mean Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I'm a really lucky guy, I have a good wardrobe of suits and things, and I have a wife that gives me a direction if I'm doing something wrong. I live a great life and I do what I love, which is wonderful.”
“This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.164, Hachette UK
“There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, MirÃ³, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.”
“We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.”
“Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!”
“Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.”
“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.”
“Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?”

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