It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
