Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. |
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof |
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. |
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. |
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. |
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before |
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. |
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. |
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong |
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves |
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. |
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. |
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. |
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. |
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less |