Theodore Schultz Quotes

#1. From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares ... yes ... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

Laura Miller

#2. What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

Theodore Schultz

#3. People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Theodore Schultz

#4. My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high school. Then, late in 1921, I entered upon a short course in agriculture at South Dakota State College. I managed to enter college in 1924, and I was permitted to complete my college work in three years.

Theodore Schultz

#5. The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

Theodore Schultz

#6. I don't even own a cell phone.

Jack Nicholson

#7. The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

Miles Kington

#8. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

#9. My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; the Great Depression made it so, and the talented younger economists at Ames during that period made it an exciting and profitable intellectual experience.

Theodore Schultz

#10. Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk - real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope?

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#11. Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Theodore Schultz

#12. And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him ... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare.

Theodore Schultz