Felix Rohatyn Quotes

• Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
  it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
  that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Equality, Able, Doe

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• Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Dirty, Hands, People

  Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

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• Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

  Felix Rohatyn

  New York, Tired, Persistence

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• I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Love, Sex, Thinking

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• Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Luck, Business Success, Matter

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• A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Government, Democracy, Half

  "Ethics in America's Money Culture". www.nytimes.com. June 3, 1987.

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• I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Believe, Profit, Capitalist

  "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business, Years, Mba

  "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Art, Skepticism, Needed

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• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Children, Years, Europe

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• Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Book, Reading, Grandchildren

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