Paul Romer Quotes

#1. Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

Paul Romer

#2. I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here

Paul Romer

#3. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Paul Romer

#4. I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.

Anton Cermak

#5. We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we're all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.

Ravi Zacharias

#7. In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century,

Paul Romer

#8. TV is and will remain the leading medium - whether it's public broadcasting, commercially funded Free-TV, or whether it is our new growth engine, Pay-TV; whether it is distributed via broadcasting or on demand: The future of TV is - TV!

Gerhard Zeiler

#9. At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#11. What a wonderful time for women on television.

Julianna Margulies

#12. The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards - to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#13. Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

Paul Romer

#14. Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas ... Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

Paul Romer

#15. Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

Paul Romer