"Innovations until now conceived by no one at all"

-- Israel Kirzner

#Innovation Quotes #Economics Quotes

“Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Mar 08, 2014
“Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.”
“Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.”
“Life is to blame for everything.”

Source : Robert Musil (2012). “Posthumous Papers of a Living Author”, p.45, Archipelago
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
“Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. â€”Kyle”
“In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.”
“Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.”

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