Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Loury

I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

Jim Bunning

I know there are 20 economists out there who could do the job.

Christopher Low

Economists were expecting that the Fed would either remove the warning about asymmetric risks toward inflation or judgment that further tightening might be necessary. Of course, the Fed did neither.

George Stigler

Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live

Lakshman Achuthan

The not-too-hot, not-too-cold 'Goldilocks' economy envisaged by many economists could turn out to be a mirage.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

David Resler

Uncertainty about the pricing environment will keep inventory investment more disappointing than some other economists expect.

James Heckman

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Travis Bradberry

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Haruki Murakami

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

Todd Campbell

Nanotech is a burgeoning field, but I want to see a leader come out and exert itself, and we don't have one yet,

Ernie Paragallo

That was nothing more than an open gallop. He didn't really exert himself.

Carl Gustav Jung

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Ian Snell

I think it's time for me to get a major-league job. I really don't know what else I have to prove in the minor leagues. I've won at every level. I've done everything I can do.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

DeLoss Dodds

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Ruben Escudero

There were some small, minor things that needed to be upgraded, and we complied with that.

Isabel Allende

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.