In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

A transition period is a period between two transition periods.

If we would see the color of our future we must look for it in our present if we would gaze on the star of our destiny we must look for it in our hearts.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.

A bond between souls is ancient-older than the planet.

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly whether they know it or not is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.

When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Rodeo careers can end without warning as quick as the next try at an eight second ride.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.