Daron Acemoglu Quotes

#1. The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's

Sebastian Junger

#2. The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Paul Epworth

#4. In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Jill Abramson

#5. My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

Avi

#6. For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

John Keats

#7. Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived.

Daron Acemoglu

#8. The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Mary Cheney

#9. Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Daron Acemoglu

#10. Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

Iris Apfel

#11. Bay in January 1788 under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. On January 26, now celebrated as Australia Day, they set up camp in Sydney Cove, the heart of the modern city of Sydney.

Daron Acemoglu

#12. Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

Rajneesh