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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.
Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, read more
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to read more
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
I made my money by selling too soon.
I made my money by selling too soon.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not read more
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for read more
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion read more
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.