Economist Quotes

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.
Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.
We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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