Ronald Coase Quotes

The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.

Ronald Coase

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 29, 1910 - September 2, 2013

Topics

GoodPeopleMeGood PeopleProblem

Many non-believers who have entered substance abuse programs have found themselves at odds with the religious overtones prevalent in the recovery industry.

Andrew Shaffer

OddsAbuseRecoveryIndustryFound

I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.

Jeff Dunham

CollegeFlyingBusyTexasDriving

People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!

Michael Gerber

PeopleDesignHelpYouCreateBuild

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsYouSayKindMeanOnly

I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.

Michael Angarano

ChangeVoiceWeekMy OwnListenOwn

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

Amber Valletta

TodayWomanI AmFeelMoreAware

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

Steve Harvey

PeopleAmazingMeEvilInternetYou

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

Stephan Pastis

WritingProudCareerI CanWant

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.

Sonny Bill Williams

FamilyTrainingWeekYoungBoy

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

Tom Hanks

GreatMeFaceThoughtAttention

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Ronald Kessler

ProblemsWantWashingtonFBIBig

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

Rudolf Nureyev

LoveBeautifulTimeMyselfDanceMe

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