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“Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.”

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Author:Martin Niemoller

“When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.”

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Author:Stephen Marche

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”

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Author:Don Marquis

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

“An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.”

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Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.”

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Author:George Stigler

“Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.”

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Author:Hugh Dalton

“People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.”

“It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo”

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Author:Phil Harding

“People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance”

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Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.”

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Author:Edgar Fiedler

“In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further”

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Author:Kevin McLean