159 Quotes by Paul Samuelson

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?'

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.

The parts of physics that are exact are the parts of physics that are exact. The parts that are inexact are vastly greater. Sensible scientists don't waste their time pushing against doors that endlessly will not give. They are opportunistic and go where they can, but there are pitfalls in that.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.