Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

I'm just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don't consider myself a star.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.