Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Power is as power does.
I do the best with what exists.
Genius is a rising stock market.
The spirit should never grow old.
Economics is not an exact science.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Conscience is better served by a myth.
War remains the decisive human failure.
No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
Only foolish people are completely secure.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Some things were never meant to be recycled.
With the American failure came world failure.
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
Happiness does not require an expanding economy
Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
It is in the long run that the corporation lives.
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.
Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.
I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
