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Martin Gilbert

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[Wikipedia] Sir Martin John Gilbert was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust. He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War

Quotes by Martin Gilbert

“ten thousand Soviet evacuees had been drowned off Tallinn, and twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews murdered at Kamenets Podolsk, in the same three…

Judaism

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I think the sign of complacency in the stock market is when people don't worry. At the moment, everyone worries about everything.…

Complacency

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“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s…

Democracy

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I think the issue that millennials have is that the return on asset classes such as bonds, cash, are so low now…

Difficult

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“In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been…

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Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

Career

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I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world…

Cold

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I think the asset management industry, especially in the US, is going through a pretty tough time. If you talk to the…

Ceo

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I think there are probably too many asset management companies in the world, and I think the place to be is either…

Business

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I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see…

Be good

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I think there are probably too many hedge fund managers in the world, as well as active fund managers. The hedge fund…

Binary

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I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration…

Birth

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Asset management CEOs globally are looking at their business models. They're looking at costs, they're looking at making their businesses more efficient,…

Business

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“The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and…

Compassion

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“national compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave’.”

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“Bernard Lewis, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the fourteen centuries of Jewish life under…

Islam

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“Throughout June 13 Churchill worked at No. 10 Annexe on his second broadcast, helped first by his son-in-law Duncan Sandys, and then…

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