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Thomas Piketty Quotes

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: french
Birth: May 7, 1971

Topics

Democracy Capitalism Want Slave Than

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Life Marriage Father Mother Parents

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

Moment Past People Me Face Bad

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

Excellence I Am Reach Doing Kind Am

I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

Baby Plants Chemical Designed Dad

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

Think Apple Kind Google App Store

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

Life Mother Children Four Lyrics

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Money Me Lunch Because 1980s Had

I'm always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I'm LeBron James.

Confused Go Always LeBron James

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Me Law Slow You Cheat Ruin

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Love Music Free Try Traditions

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

Myself Out Just Accident Really

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Life Women Wave Timing Movement

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