It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.
Every experience that you have is important.
I think if I had just slowed down a little bit it could have a little easier. I multiplied how difficult it needed to be instead of just saying, fair enough. You don't have to make it hard.
You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.