Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

Silence is the door of consent.

The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

I'd rather hire someone who is extremely disciplined and process-oriented, than someone with all of the experience in the world.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.