Adair Turner Quotes

#1. In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Adair Turner

#2. But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Rebecca Skloot

#3. I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Maya Angelou

#4. The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

Adair Turner

#5. In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Adair Turner

#6. My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

Mary Engelbreit

#7. When you lose your enemy, it's like you lost your love!

Fereidoon Yazdi

#8. We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Adair Turner

#9. The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

Adair Turner

#10. And I must smile and dance with this man, and say nothing, for he holds the key to the prison my life has become.

Victoria Lamb

#11. If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

Adair Turner

#12. Puppies are a reflection of unconditional love, entrusted to us like precious seeds. We water them with praise, patience, and love, and watch them grow into full bloom.

Leila Grandemange

#13. Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

Adair Turner