The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

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

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.

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

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.