Quotes of: Rand Keyword

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

Janet Yellen

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Kenneth E. Boulding

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

Lael Brainard

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Lawrence Summers

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Lawrence Summers

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Lawrence Summers

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

Marc Faber

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Stuart Chase

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Stuart Chase

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

Mark Skousen

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

bell hooks

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

Rose Wilder Lane

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Michael Porter

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

Noreena Hertz

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young