KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Virginia Postrel Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Showing 41-50 of 136 Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.

~Virginia Postrel

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 14th, 1960

Links

Find Virginia Postrel on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Isaac Asimov Nuno Bettencourt Dale Carnegie Heraclitus Beyonce Knowles Joan Rivers Rumi Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Dad Learning Love Patriotism Politics Respect Saint Patrick's Day