Good questions outrank easy answers.
PAUL A SAMUELSON In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, wi...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON ...a force that operates year-in and year-out, whenever we are at high employment, to push up prices...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Various experts, here and abroad, believe that the immediate postwar inflationary climate has now be...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON I think, without question, that unemployment of more than 6 per cent is something to be concerned ab...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, rail...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Funeral by funeral, theory advances
PAUL A. SAMUELSON The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the t...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile auth...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is i...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL A. SAMUELSON An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
PAUL A. SAMUELSON What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.
PAUL SAMUELSON Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us m...
PAUL SAMUELSON It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
PAUL SAMUELSON I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of th...
PAUL SAMUELSON Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, t...
PAUL SAMUELSON To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a po...
PAUL SAMUELSON I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific met...
PAUL SAMUELSON Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, ...
PAUL SAMUELSON Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And tha...
PAUL SAMUELSON I have not been able in one lecture even to scratch the surface of the role of maximum principles in...
PAUL SAMUELSON We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly...
PAUL SAMUELSON The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role t...
PAUL SAMUELSON Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, tak...
PAUL SAMUELSON Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independen...
PAUL SAMUELSON I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards - where half of us are academics and hal...
PAUL SAMUELSON What is it that the scientist finds useful in being able to relate a positive description of behavio...
PAUL SAMUELSON My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of...
PAUL SAMUELSON You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take...
PAUL SAMUELSON It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
PAUL SAMUELSON Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
PAUL SAMUELSON U.S. capital formation, which has been pretty high in the '90s and very high in the late 1990s, ...
PAUL SAMUELSON My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the be...
PAUL SAMUELSON 'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than &#...
PAUL SAMUELSON Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change ...
PAUL SAMUELSON I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining wh...
PAUL SAMUELSON An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
PAUL SAMUELSON I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human int...
PAUL SAMUELSON Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate i...
PAUL SAMUELSON Milton Friedman. Friedman had a solid MV = PQ doctrine from which he deviated very little all his li...
PAUL SAMUELSON The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy ha...
PAUL SAMUELSON Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as &...
PAUL SAMUELSON I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate o...
PAUL SAMUELSON When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?
PAUL SAMUELSON The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungr...
PAUL SAMUELSON I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only ...
PAUL SAMUELSON The parts of physics that are exact are the parts of physics that are exact. The parts that are inex...
PAUL SAMUELSON In the jargon of American vaudeville, Professors Frisch and Tinbergen are a 'hard act to follow....
PAUL SAMUELSON Let me acknowledge that I realize that, in honoring me, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Scienc...
PAUL SAMUELSON In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in econo...
PAUL SAMUELSON The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fec...
PAUL SAMUELSON Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.
PAUL SAMUELSON A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.
PAUL SAMUELSON Women are men without money.
PAUL SAMUELSON I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.
PAUL SAMUELSON Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won'...
PAUL SAMUELSON Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
PAUL SAMUELSON Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits...
PAUL SAMUELSON Good questions outrank easy answers.
PAUL SAMUELSON What we'd like to ask you to at least consider is a public-private partnership where LANCO puts up t...
BECKY SAMUELSON Bobby made a valiant effort and he was a really good guy and we supported him, sometimes even financ...
BECKY SAMUELSON The Port has the land and we hope the commissioners will see some value, at least in the short run, ...
BECKY SAMUELSON What we'd like to ask you to at least consider is a public-private partnership where LANCO puts up t...
BECKY SAMUELSON What we'd like to ask you to at least consider is a public-private partnership where LANCO puts up t...
BECKY SAMUELSON At halftime we were all dying, but luckily we were having fun in the second half and didn't feel as ...
ARIEL SAMUELSON Last year's class is obviously a very hard class to replace, but we're lucky to have a strong return...
ARIEL SAMUELSON Today was absolutely awesome. I'm so excited for the rest of the season because we can only go up fr...
ARIEL SAMUELSON In a city that grew up fast and changes quickly ... some of the old institutions and businesses and ...
TIM SAMUELSON We were all very homesick.
KIM SAMUELSON I need more time than that to research my options. I'd like to serve in the Senate. I'll probably ma...
DON SAMUELSON No, 'they don't build them like they used to!' Thank God. The vehicles today are so much better and ...
DON SAMUELSON Probably the two largest changes in these 44 years have been in quality and price. In 1962, I could ...
DON SAMUELSON It's interesting how quickly it fell out of favor. The children of the older families didn't want to...
TIM SAMUELSON Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally...
K. A. PAUL Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it th...
K. A. PAUL I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran bur...
K. A. PAUL When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefi...
PAUL A. VOLCKER Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis fo...
PAUL A. VOLCKER By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to...
PAUL A. VOLCKER Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles a...
PAUL A. VOLCKER Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
PAUL A. VOLCKER There was no doubt that there were difficulties with the Security Council, hampering action on some ...
PAUL A. VOLCKER I hope to reinforce the recognition of the need for reform, ... There's a lot of nominal support for...
PAUL A. VOLCKER What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be danci...
PAUL A. VOLCKER Everybody down the line kept very meticulous records because Saddam told them, 'You get the surcharg...
PAUL A. VOLCKER It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easi...
PAUL A. COHEN I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was l...
JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A. How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A. Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A. The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE 'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM My work is not directly about the social or political.
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. Yo...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i...
A. ALVAREZ Love, while you are able to love.
A. FRIELIGRATH If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all you...
A. NEILEN Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. SACHS There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish
NOVELLINA A. Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
A. NIELSEN I said to him, 'You know, I found that story very interesting. You see, President Putin, I think you...
A. BUSH Companies that fail to adhere to environmental laws not only put our natural resources and wildlife ...
A. JOHNSON Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the ...
A. BUSH The biggest threat to our recovery is for the Congress to overspend, ... We have the funds to meet o...
A. BUSH Kyoto is in many ways unrealistic,
A. BUSH People know we're close ... As a result of my friendship with Harriet, I know her strength of charac...
A. BUSH As a coach, I can only give them the formula; they do the work,
A. JOHNSON You're only as strong as your fifth runner,
A. JOHNSON It helps me, personally, to train with people who are better than me. We're with them every Saturday...
A. JOHNSON she says, ''It's really about doing the science differently, doing the clinical care differently. We...
A. JOHNSON It's better when you have two people that kind of grew up together instead of two people who are kin...
A. JOHNSON We've got to get our act together, ... We're getting our clock cleaned.
A. JOHNSON It can't just be a warm body ... it's got to be somebody who commands respect,
A. JOHNSON I saw, with him here at the helm, the great potential to do some important things.
A. JOHNSON Inside these walls, you can be anyone you want to be,
A. JOHNSON I alternate between hope and despair,
A. JOHNSON [Mincberg told IBD that] in the wake of the tragedy ... appeasing the right.
A. BUSH