Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Joseph Stiglitz

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WorkEconomicsProblemInformation

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

PenBrilliantNeedGiveMineFar

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Anna Kendrick

TimePeopleSayingBecomeCalifornia

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Ang Lee

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Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

Michael Graves

MeKitchenSomeoneYouLoseOff

Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.

Stan Van Gundy

StrengthPowerPeopleDemocracyOut

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

DoingWorthSometimesSomething

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Rodney Dangerfield

TruthWifeMeSeeingBartenderShe

In fact, no one has ever really wanted to go on a date with me.

Mika

MeGoDateFactWantedReally

If you want me to be a cry baby, I cannot: I am the leader of a country. If you want to give me something and then withdraw it, fine; I must respect your decision.

Joyce Banda

LeaderRespectDecisionI AmBaby

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

Janez Drnovsek

GoodDreamsRespectEqualityPeople

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

Sunil Mittal

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Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

Paz Vega

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