Lowenstein Quotes

#1. I'm an American male, Lowenstein," I said, smiling. "It's not my job to be open." "What exactly is the American male's job?" she asked. "To be maddening. To be unreadable, controlling, bull-headed, and insensitive," I said.

Pat Conroy

#2. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#3. The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

John Lowenstein

#4. See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

#5. The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

#6. If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

Thomas Szasz

#7. bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's

Douglas E. Richards

#8. I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Victor Borge

#9. After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.

Eric Spitznagel

#10. Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.

Roger Lowenstein

#11. The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

Roger Lowenstein

#12. Graham's first goal was never to make money - it was to avoid losing any.

Roger Lowenstein

#13. We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Hyde Pierce

#14. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me

Haruki Murakami

#15. American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#16. Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

Roger Lowenstein

#17. Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Roger Lowenstein

#18. You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

Hans Rosling

#19. Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

Rajneesh

#20. Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character - of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Roger Lowenstein

#21. As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

Guido Westerwelle

#22. I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

Howard Dean

#23. They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

John Lowenstein

#24. Ma!' The new born's call of value 'ace'
though small in size, plethora of space;
cozy from womb, with warmest embrace,
Always I felt first being with you - safe!
and felt luckiest, all with God's grace.

Priyavrat Thareja

#25. In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

Roger Lowenstein

#26. The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard K. Lowenstein

#27. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Isidor Isaac Rabi