159 Quotes by Paul Samuelson

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions

The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.