"It is a good idea to be ambitious,……" — Robert Solow
"It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself."
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Robert Solow
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11 Quotes by Robert Solow
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There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You…
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Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
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But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also…
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Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out…
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The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
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The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well…
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The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for…
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If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for…
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