“His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.”

Life is not a multiple choice test, it’s an open-book essay exam.

And there would be an inventory pileup. And then – bam – businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Murphys law of economic policy’: Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

They have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman’s baton with extraordinary skill.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, … If one can’t sell, then that business doesn’t buy and that means the next business doesn’t sell, and the previous business doesn’t sell, and so on.

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.

Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I answer only to God.

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

You talk to me in riddles, I will answer you in rhyme. I loved you for a little- I will love you for all time.

The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.