Top 15 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.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

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

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

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