Quotes of: Milton Keyword

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Le Corbusier

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

Muhammad Yunus

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress env...

Garrett Hardin

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Henry Charles Carey

If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.

Sanford I. Weill

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

James Tobin

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

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

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

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

James Durbin

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

I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

Erik Spiekermann

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

George Ayittey

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

Hans Rosling

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar Fiedler