Quote#Wisdom
Interest is, as it were, human impatience crystallized into a market…
Quote byIrving Fisher · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Elementary Principles of Economics (1916), quoted in Joseph Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development.
English (original)
Interest is, as it were, human impatience crystallized into a market rate.
— Irving Fisher
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