Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

#hear #like #people #politicians #tell

Good questions outrank easy answers. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#easy #good #questions

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#crisis #financial #financial crisis #global #know

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#been #economics #even #few #less

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#every #good #good cause #inefficiency #some

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#excitement #go #grass #grow #investing

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#decade #greed #intriguing #paradox

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#companies #does #enterprises #europe #hardly

Funeral by funeral, theory advances. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#funeral #theory