Vernon L. Smith Quotes

"In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Work, First, Wage)

"I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Truth, Economics, Literature)

"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Security)

"Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined."
- Vernon L. Smith

"After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: First, Schools)

"After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Economics, Engineering, University)

"Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Life, Care, Day, Excitement, Old, Parents, World)

"I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: Memory, Taste)