All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

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

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it.

Out here in Amish. Smokin big doinks in Amish. Gang.

When I met Jean I felt God reach down out of the sky pull my hair and say "This one dummy."

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.