Top 16 Leonid Hurwicz Quotes
#1. My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
Leonid Hurwicz
#2. A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
Leonid Hurwicz
#3. Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill
#4. Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.
Leonid Hurwicz
#5. Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
Irene Peter
#6. Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
Leonid Hurwicz
#7. # I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#8. When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.
Leonid Hurwicz
#10. The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
Sally Quinn
#11. A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
Leonid Hurwicz
#13. If only," repeated Rick with a shake of his head. "Those are two words in the English language that we regret saying the most.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#14. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
#15. I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.
John Mayer
#16. There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.
Leonid Hurwicz
