Quotes of: Rand Keyword

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

Peter Bofinger

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Peter Bofinger

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Paul Samuelson

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Paula Scher

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

Sendhil Mullainathan

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

Sheryl Sandberg

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can... and according them.

Sheryl Sandberg

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

Tibor Kalman

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Tibor Kalman

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Thomas Piketty

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Tom Peters

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Tom Peters

If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.

Tom Peters

'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.

Tom Peters

Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo is the thing.

Teodoro Petkoff

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Thomas Sowell

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Thomas Sowell