“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass gro...” — Paul Samuelson Quote

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

There's nothing in Keynesian economics that would allow you to solve stagflation. But there's nothing in neoclassical economics that would allow you to solve stagflation, either.

I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like 'You Go to My Head,' 'I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,' 'Taking a Chance on Love.'

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.