Quotes of: Locked-up Keyword

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Robert McChesney

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

Scott Cook

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

William Feather

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Jeffrey Sachs

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

George Reisman

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Ramana Maharshi

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Amartya Sen

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Jeremy Rifkin

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Moon Unit Zappa

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Thomas Sowell

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Emily Oster

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

George Ayittey

Life and death are like two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other.

Isak Dinesen

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Emily Greene Balch

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Emily Greene Balch

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Eric Betzig

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar Fiedler