My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

It’s a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.

woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image?

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed. It's that simple.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.