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Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1943

Topics

Wisdom Results Run Economists Seem

I don't like to complain.

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.

Me More Something Sexist Than

Kids are so shrewd.

'Fountain of youth' is actually kind of ambiguous - does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about?

Live Youth Talking You Healthy Kind

Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

Life My Life Clothes I Can Anything

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

Michael De Luca

Fan Sopranos Huge Obviously

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

College Me Tradition New Kind Way

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

Leadership Leader Great Football

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

Work Hell Fat Doing Living Sitting

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

Life Time Humor People Laugh You

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Christina Milian

Funny Experience Gun You Down Ever

According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.

Brendan I. Koerner

Day New York New Labor First Parade

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