Gary Becker Quotes

#1. The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Gary Becker

#2. I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Gary Becker

#3. My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Gary Becker

#4. Economy is the art of making the most of life.

Gary Becker

#5. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.

Chinua Achebe

#6. The gospel produces not just obedience, you see, but a new kind of obedience3 - an obedience that is powered by desire. An obedience that is both pleasing to God and delightful to you.

J.D. Greear

#7. Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

Gary Becker

#8. There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

Robert Irwin

#9. A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Gary Becker

#10. The Russian Federation has a growing Muslim minority, which is causing cultural and religious clashes. This is similar to mass immigration of Mexicans to America, and certain presidential candidates are tailoring their campaigns to get Mexican votes.

David Duke

#11. Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.

Mickalene Thomas

#12. Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Gary Becker

#13. Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Gary Becker

#14. Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

Gary Becker

#15. Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Gary Becker

#16. Sometimes we have to go through difficult times in life," he said. "But they're just a test, and if we stay strong, we're eventually rewarded.

Chevy Stevens

#17. I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Gary Becker

#19. Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Gary Becker