If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.