Quotes About Samuelson

Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

At the beginning of my sophomore year at Princeton University, I took my first economics course; our textbook was the first edition of Samuelson's 'Economics: An Introductory Analysis.'

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

Characteristically, Samuelson intimidated those who questioned his techniques with the statement "Those who can, do science, others do methodology." If you knew math, you could "do science." This is reminiscent of psychoanalysts who silence their critics by accusing them of having trouble with their fathers.