The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

I do the best with what exists.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.