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Baker, Kenneth

“Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.”

Blanchard, Kenneth

“As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.”

“When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.”

Bowles, Chester

“Production is the only answer to inflation.”

“There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.”

Brown, Norman

“All currency is neurotic currency.”

“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

“The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.”

Brown, Lester

“Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.”

Buchwald, Art

"Als het beter gaat met de economie, dan gaat al de rest slechter."

“An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.”

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”

“It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being attacked by depraved consumer groups.”

“Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.”

“The best things in life aren't things.”

Buffet, Warren

“...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.”

“De mensen die met hun Rolls Royce naar de Wall Street gaan, vragen advies van de mensen die met de metro naar Wall Street gaan."

“Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised."

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”

“I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.”

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”

“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”

“The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.”

“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'”

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."

“When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".”

Burke, Edmund

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”

“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.”

“That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.”

“The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.”

“When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.”