Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Paul SamuelsonPoliticians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
Paul SamuelsonGlobalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Paul SamuelsonProfits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
Paul SamuelsonSooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
Paul SamuelsonFirst, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).
Paul Samuelson