Dale T. Mortensen Quotes

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

Dale T. Mortensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1939 - January 9, 2014

Topics

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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Robert Sheckley

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I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Steven Wright

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My journey was a very organic journey.

Trip Lee

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The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Rupert Murdoch

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I only do what comes from the heart.

LL Cool J

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Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.

Julia Roberts

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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Josh Hutcherson

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Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

Chris Hardwick

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The world needs some excitement from fashion.

Christian Lacroix

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True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Ashton Kutcher

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I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Winona LaDuke

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Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

Sharon Van Etten

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