If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.