Theodore Schultz Quotes

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.

Theodore Schultz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1902 - February 26, 1998

Topics

PeopleEconomicsWorldAgriculture

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Jessi Klein

MePictureGoWantAustraliaSame

Culture means control over nature.

Johan Huizinga

NatureCultureControlOverMeans

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

Andrea Jung

WomenMyselfWayMoreTopGet

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

Max von Sydow

MeHollywoodCastVillainsPriests

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Jean Racine

TimeManAdmitCircumstancesCannot

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

Michael C. Burgess

FamilyFriendHomeExperiencePast

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

Tom Seaver

YouLookWrongManagerNothingOut

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Robert Collier

MindBelieveThoughtBe TrueTrue

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Robert Fulghum

CommunitySolitudeSolutionMore

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

Moby

NatureNew YorkGrowRememberPlace

I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

Clint Smith

HistoryTimeRacismThinkCountry

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Annie Leibovitz

WorkFindWayMy OwnGlamourOwn

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