Quotes of: Rand Keyword

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

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

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Evan Davis

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar Fiedler

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Ellsworth Huntington

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Ellsworth Huntington

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Edward Lazear

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Chester Barnard

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

Candace Camp

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Gary Hamel

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

George Stigler

I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

Ha-Joon Chang

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Ha-Joon Chang

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Herman Daly

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Jeremy Rifkin

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Daniel Ellsberg

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Daniel Kahneman

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Daniel Kahneman