60 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments.