The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

In the long run we are all dead.

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

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Tanzan Ishibashi

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

-- Alexander the Great

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

-- Ludwig von Mises

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

-- Friedrich Hayek