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Martin Wolf Quotes

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

Martin Wolf
Order, Ideas, Needs

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

Martin Wolf
Essence, Foolish, Creation
"The Fed is right to turn on the tap". www.ft.com. November 9, 2010.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Martin Wolf
Ignorance, Thinking, Swans

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

Martin Wolf
Saint, Immorality, Capitalism
Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.57, Yale University Press

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Martin Wolf
Creative, Today, Way

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

Martin Wolf
Animal, Space, Diversity

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

Martin Wolf
Country, Nonsense, Notion
Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.268, Yale University Press

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

Martin Wolf
Challenges, Growth, Century
"Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.

The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.

Martin Wolf
Data, Risk, Doubt

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