John Lanchester Quotes About Finance

• Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Husband, Years

• It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Opportunity, People

  John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

• The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

  John Lanchester

  Country, Business, Cities

  John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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