Bertil Ohlin Quotes

In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.

Bertil Ohlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: April 23, 1899 - August 3, 1979

Topics

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I need to have many things cooking at the same time.

Robert Lepage

TimeCookingNeedSameThingsMany

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Jeffery Deaver

WritingLanguageLongYouKnowWant

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Michael Douglas

WorkChallengeProgressYouPlay

I like working more than I like being at home. Facing that fact is incredibly difficult to handle, because what kind of person likes working more than being at home?

Shonda Rhimes

HomePersonKindMoreDifficult

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Ronnie Wood

PeopleConstitutionThoughtTrying

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Janine Benyus

FutureTruthTruth IsWantWithout

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping

CoolAimNeverLeadHeadBig

When it gets to the knockout stages of Europe, we all know anything can happen.

Diego Godin

KnowHappenEuropeAnythingStages

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

LiveIgnoranceBelieveI CanNow

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Ciaran Hinds

JoyPeopleMeStoryProcessGoal

Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.

Peter Maurer

HumanityScarsCruelTortureLast

It's extraordinary to me - you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more American jobs and more American factories than Hillary Clinton. She did NAFTA, she did China's entry into the World Trade Organization, she did the South Korean 2012 deal - every single one of those.

Peter Navarro

HistoryMeOrganizationWorldName

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