Quotes by James Buchan

James Buchan

A century ago, petroleum – what we call oil – was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Oil

Today

Water

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Delay

Nuclear

Should

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

Cutting

Firsts

Pages

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Birthday

Challenges

Order

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

Heart

Insecure

Suicidal

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves.

Bankers

Self Worth

Thinking

Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

Bulls

Dust

Fall

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Pouring

Sometimes

Survivor

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Class

Devil

Today

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Children

Errors

Royal

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Addiction

Age

Agency

Arabia

Average

Bags

Bankers

Birthday

Book

Bulls

Cash

Challenges

Character

Children

Cities

Class

Country

Couple

Cutting

Delay

Democracy

Devil

Different

Distance

Doe

Dog

Doubt

Drama

Dust

Egypt

Enlightenment

Errors

Europe

Expansion

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Financial

Fireworks

Firsts

Gdp

Generations

Giving

Government

Greed

Grief

Heart

Historical

History

Humiliation

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Quotes by James Buchan

James Buchan

A century ago, petroleum – what we call oil – was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves.

Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

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