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

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

In the long run we are all dead.

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

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Born in Tokyo 1884. As editor of Toyo Keizai Shimp

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

-- Alexander the Great

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

-- Victor Hugo

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

-- Henry George

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

-- Born in Vienna in 1899, Hayek