Thomas Sowell Quotes

"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
-Thomas Sowell in Time quotes.

"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
-Thomas Sowell

"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."
-Thomas Sowell in Politics quotes.

"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
-Thomas Sowell in Meetings quotes.

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously."
-Thomas Sowell in Honesty quotes.

"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."
-Thomas Sowell in Character quotes.

"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."
-Thomas Sowell in Honor quotes.

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
-Thomas Sowell

"Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden."
-Thomas Sowell

"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with."
-Thomas Sowell in Politics quotes.

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back."
-Thomas Sowell in Etiquette quotes.