4 Quotes & Sayings By Robert F Engle

Robert F. Engle is the author of over 3,000 articles, books, and reference works in such varied fields as physics, chemistry, and biology. He has been a Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn't quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn't aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm. Robert F. Engle
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There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded. Robert F. Engle
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Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax. Robert F. Engle