Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free 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.

A step from the past always demands a step in the mind backed by a robust action. The very place you fall is the very place you make the first move to move.

If you reverend God, you shall respect all souls.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

If you wish to write, write.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

I've never studied psychology.

I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.