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Thomas Sowell Quotes

«The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings»
«You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.»
«People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.»
Author: Thomas Sowell (Economist, Writer) | About: Meetings | Keywords: charge, in charge, meetings
«The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.»
«One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them»
«The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.»
Author: Thomas Sowell (Economist, Writer) | About: Thinking | Keywords: confuses, Johnny
«People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do»
Author: Thomas Sowell (Economist, Writer) | About: Time | Keywords: inevitably
«The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.»
«Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face»
«Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help»

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