If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already (that) I might not have all the attributes that usually that the Church looks for when canonizing somebody because I'm supposed to be dead already.
There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.
I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one;. . .