James Tobin Quotes

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.

James Tobin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002

Topics

LearningWarUniversityDaysUnited

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

Jim Ratcliffe

WorkSlowWillBecomeNeverEurope

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

John Maynard Keynes

SuccessBeautifulWarCapitalism

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

John Wayne

LibertyIndividual

There's a difference between stress and pressure.

Spike Jonze

StressPressureDifferenceBetween

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

Stanislav Grof

ScienceThinkingAnimalsHumanAtoms

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Rod Blagojevich

ChildrenPeopleHelpWillWhatever

Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.

Mike McCue

HopeMoneyYouWayOpenStay

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Lou Reed

YouOutDepressingStillYourPrint

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

Donald Ray Pollock

IgnorancePeopleLustBloodLived

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

Brett Ratner

LifeFunHaving FunGuyJustWho

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

Apolo Ohno

BusinessSchoolMarketingAlways

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

Aretha Franklin

GodBetterYouThanLoves

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