Average Quote by Niall Ferguson

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“Consider this: the US economy created 2.4 million jobs in the three years beginning in June 2009. In the same period, 3.3 million Americans…

— Niall Ferguson

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“Is it better today to be in a network, which gives you influence, than in a hierarchy, which gives you power?”

— Niall Ferguson

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

— Niall Ferguson

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,…

— Niall Ferguson

“Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation…

— Niall Ferguson

“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of…

— Niall Ferguson

“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.…

— Niall Ferguson

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

— Niall Ferguson

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely…

— Niall Ferguson