The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

Love is a powerful thing. More powerful, even, than money.

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?

To be happy in life, develop at least four hobbies: one to bring you money, one to keep you healthy, one to bring you joy, and one to bring you peace.

Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.

Look around you, something is behind you. find it whether it's me or your Shadow

For as long I can remember I have wanted to die. So that started around age 6. I think. My earliest clear memories start at age 140.

Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.