Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

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.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.

The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.