Avinash Dixit famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

  • all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...

  • Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.

  • We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  • There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  • Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

  • Whatever you tax you get less of.

  • Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

  • To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

  • Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.