[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.

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.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?