Louis Rukeyser Quotes

Louis Rukeyser delivers blunt takes on policy and human behavior.

7 quotes

1. Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

2. Trees don't grow to the sky.

3. Only liberals have trouble understanding that if you subsidize sloth and fertility, you get more; and if you penalize hard work and thrift, you get less.

4. The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.

5. In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

6. Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

7. I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.