Top 37 Quotes by Niall Ferguson

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

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 have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.

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

One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.