"If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. This is what we do all the time with other products-drugs, cars, electrical products and many others."

-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Running Quotes #Business Quotes #Long Quotes

“It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.”
“Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.”
“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
“I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.”
“Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.”
“Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.”
“People do that sometimes. Change.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “Paper Valentine”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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