Paul Samuelson

The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found…

— Paul Samuelson

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

— Paul Samuelson

We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now,…

— Paul Samuelson

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

— Paul Samuelson

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical…

— Paul Samuelson

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out…

— Paul Samuelson

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

— Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to…

— Paul Samuelson

Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do…

— Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one…

— Paul Samuelson

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

— Paul Samuelson

The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those…

— Paul Samuelson

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed,…

— Paul Samuelson

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

— Paul Samuelson

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult…

— Paul Samuelson

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

— Paul Samuelson

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it…

— Paul Samuelson

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

— Paul Samuelson

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by…

— Paul Samuelson

If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be…

— Paul Samuelson

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

— Paul Samuelson

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

— Paul Samuelson