34 Quotes by David Plotz

I feel like there’s lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is – more people want it than can do it.

God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes – Jacob or Moses or David – were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn’t prepared for the demands that that involved.

I sound like an evangelist or something.

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I’m an advisor on.

I’m very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I’m very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there’s much more demand than there is supply.

So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated – like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.