Top 37 Quotes by Niall Ferguson

About Niall Ferguson

These are some quotes by British author Niall Ferguson Historian, who was born on April 18, 1964.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Niall Ferguson

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

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Niall Ferguson

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

Niall Ferguson

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

Niall Ferguson

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

Niall Ferguson

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

Niall Ferguson

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