“My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I be...” — Fernando Haddad Quote

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

Lula aimed to both internationalize big Brazilian capital and improve the domestic market and the condition of the poorest in Brazil. In the gaze of a lot of people, this was a big contradiction, but for Lula, this was the most natural thing in the world, to think about these two things together.

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.

Getting finance together can take a while.