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George Goodman Quotes

born 1930 United States

George Jerome Waldo Goodman (born August 10, 1930, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which was assigned by Clay Felker at New York Magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous).

United States
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The phrase " the Gnomes of Zurich" was coined by George Brown, the Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The Money Game (1968)

In Freud's crowd, the individuals fasten on an object, substitute it for their ego ideal, and all those with the same ego ideal identify themselves with each other in their ego. Remove the object and you get anxiety.

The Money Game (1968)

When the Rothchilds got the word about the battle of Waterloo - in the movie it was by carrier pigeon - they didn't rush down and buy British consols, the government bonds. They rushed in and sold, and then, in the panic, they bought.

The Money Game (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Goodman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.