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

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.

Dear God, I must be dead and in hell since you're here.

The most important thing is to stay positive.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up