Niall Ferguson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Niall Ferguson quotes and sayings page 2 (60 year old historian). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 37 we have for him.
“I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.”
“I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.”
“In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.”
“Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.”
“As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.”
“I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.”
“My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.”
“A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.”
“As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.”
“I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.”
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