I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area. — Peter Bofinger Copy Share Image
...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any… — William Osler Copy Share Image
A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate. — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image