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Quotes by Economist

"Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?"

"Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are."

"Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live."

"CHALLENGES MAKE US RISE TO THE OCASSION."

"Dreaming of the life we want has always been easier than working for it."


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"A metallic money, the augmentation or diminution of the quantity of metal available for which is independent of deliberate human intervention, is becoming the modern monetary ideal. The significance of adherence to a metallic-money system lies in the freedom of the value of money from State influence that such a system guarantees."

"Depreciation of money can benefit debtors only when it is unforeseen. If inflationary measures and a reduction of the value of money are expected, then those who lend money will demand higher interest in order to compensate their probable loss of capital, and those who seek loans will be prepared to pay the higher interest because they have a prospect of gaining on capital account."
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