#excess

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#bigger #bubbles #china #credit #excess

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.' ↗

— James Chanos

#australia #china #clearly #clients #complacency

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#although #always #because #bull #bull market

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess. ↗

— Peter Utley

#excess #never #out #scandal #search

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#every #excess #however #itself #minds

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#excess #only #sometimes #vices #virtues

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. ↗

— Will Durant

#basic principle #every #excess #form #government

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man