Top 15 Quotes by Paul Samuelson

Good questions outrank easy answers.

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.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

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

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

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

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

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

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