“Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?”

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

I’m tired of Republicans who lay down and allow this country to be ravaged, allow Democrats to abuse their power in their positions, and I believe it’s time for Republicans to stand up for the American people and do a good job in Congress.

In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

I think center is a critical position.

Soul Plane’ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.