Quotes by Robert Merton

“The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”

“The benefit would be access to public capital markets so it can take on new products and markets. The disadvantage is an additional layer of responsibility and reporting.”

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency.”

“The moral mandate to achieve success exerts pressure to succeed by fair means, if possible, and by foul means, if necessary.”

“In effect, the same kind of methodology or technology that was developed about 25 years ago is being employed today in a wide variety of the financial spectrum,”

“We thought it would have significance for practice but nothing of the magnitude thats occurred over the last 20 or so years,”