Bofinger Quotes

#1. The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

Kevin Eubanks

#2. I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

Howard Schultz

#3. I'm not asking for sympathy, but it would be nice if you could give me a bit more in the way of a response. Other than those cold interjections of yours - ohs and ums. How about a conjunction? A conjunction would be nice. A yet or a but.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

Peter Bofinger

#5. I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.

Gwen Stefani

#6. Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

Richard Dreyfuss

#7. Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

David Gerrold

#8. One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

Peter Bofinger

#9. It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

Peter Bofinger

#10. Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.

Peter Bofinger

#11. Christ had the good of souls in his eye ... When you preach, let this be your design, to seek to recover lost sheep ... to get some converted, and brought in to your Master.

J.I. Packer

#12. We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Lawrence Fagg

#13. Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

Peter Bofinger

#14. How can someone who made me look this happy no longer be in my life

Melina Marchetta

#15. The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Peter Bofinger

#16. It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

David Jeremiah