Franco Modigliani Quotes

#1. She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

Maile Meloy

#2. The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

Franco Modigliani

#3. Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.

Frederick Lenz

#4. People confuse economists and economic policy.

Franco Modigliani

#5. During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

Matthew Stewart

#6. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Franco Modigliani

#7. Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment ... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

Franco Modigliani

#8. With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Franco Modigliani

#9. High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy ... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

Franco Modigliani

#10. Boston is a state of mind.

Thomas Gold Appleton

#11. Lay down, please. Samuel's voice stroked my ears like a man seducing his lover after they'd suffered a long absence.

Kenya Wright

#12. In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.

Andrew Murray

#13. The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Don Roff

#14. I am a believer in cooperation.

Franco Modigliani

#15. Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carrie Nation

#16. I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Amy Heckerling

#17. Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by any force. - MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Leo Tolstoy