Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

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

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.