Paul Samuelson

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

— Paul Samuelson

We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

— Paul Samuelson

Man does not live by GNP alone.

— Paul Samuelson

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

— Paul Samuelson

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

— Paul Samuelson

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

— Paul Samuelson

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

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

— 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

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather…

— 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

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did…

— 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

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response…

— Paul Samuelson

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down,…

— 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

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small…

— Paul Samuelson

By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply…

— Paul Samuelson

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be…

— Paul Samuelson

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to…

— Paul Samuelson

The debate can be put in the form of the question: Resolved, that the best of money managers cannot be demonstrated to…

— Paul Samuelson

An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived…

— Paul Samuelson

Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would…

— Paul Samuelson

First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and…

— Paul Samuelson

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should…

— Paul Samuelson

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

— Paul Samuelson

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

— Paul Samuelson

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

— Paul Samuelson

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

— Paul Samuelson

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Paul Samuelson