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Eric Maskin Quotes

Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1950

Topics

Good Right Always Over Years Pretty

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

Robert Griffin III

Work God I Am Me Thank God Rebel

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

People Nothing Why Happen May Polls

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

People Powerful Know True Need Who

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

Work People Think Doing Wings Going

In 2002, a year after 9-11, as a Congressman, I was banned from the White House by Karl Rove because I told the 'Washington Times' that if there is another terrorist attack on our homeland and we have done nothing more than Bush has done to date, 'Bush will have blood on his hands.'

Hands Year House White Done Nothing

I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical.

Work Good Think You Rare Older

My first album is playful.

First Playful Album

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Life Man Yourself Aging Old Man You

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

Ideas Building Start Feedback Big

It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.

Jonathan Raymond

Balance Process End You Way Need

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

Better You Find Boring Bigger Kids

I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.

Chris Stapleton

Good Music Mountain Training Church

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