Author: Niall Ferguson

Quotes

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

- Niall Ferguson

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

- Niall Ferguson

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.

- Niall Ferguson

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.

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.

- Niall Ferguson

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

- Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

- Niall Ferguson

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

- Niall Ferguson

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

- Niall Ferguson

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

- Niall Ferguson

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