top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do."
Standard
Customized
More
"We are what we think."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Think of what you desire out of life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation."
Time
"When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do."
Thought
"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
Personal
"It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had."
Economy
"You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America."
Economy
"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree."
Communication
"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."
Life
"Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles."
Business
"Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed."
Economy
"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."
Creativity
bottom of page