Crafts Quote by Oswald Spengler

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft…

— Oswald Spengler

There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.

— Elizabeth Warren

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

— Yoko Taro

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that “people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather…

— Sally Hogshead

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ... in the…

— John Maynard Keynes

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive…

— Robert Heilbroner

Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the…

— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

— Edith Green

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

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

— Paul Samuelson

“You take corporate money and give it to a neutral-sounding think tank,” which “hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put out credible-seeming…

— Jane Mayer