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Women are men without money.
Man does not live by GNP alone.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
Rent control created deadweight loss.
Economists have much to be humble about.
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.
We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.
A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.
What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.
It is dead wrong about necessary surplus of winnings over losings.
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.
Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.
Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.
Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.
When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.
The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.
Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.
I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas
I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in analytic economics.
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.
The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'
We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.
It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?