All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.