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"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
Explore more quotes by James Tobin
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer."
"At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory."
"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."
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