Kindleberger Charles Quotes

#1. Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#2. Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

Rob Brown

#4. The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#5. Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#6. I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Mika.

#7. There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

Charles P. Kindleberger

#8. The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#9. The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Charles P. Kindleberger

#10. Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something ... Find your passion and get good at it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#11. When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Cathy Freeman

#12. Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Charles P. Kindleberger