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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. — Joseph Stiglitz

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics. — Peter J. Boettke

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. — David Baldacci

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles. — Joan Robinson

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. — Diane Coyle

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. — Henry Hazlitt

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too. — Charles Eisenstein

Economists have much to be humble about. — Paul Samuelson

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

The economists will have to revise their theories of value. — Albert Einstein

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. — Hillary Clinton

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. — Ilana Mercer

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists. — Kenneth E. Boulding

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny. — Mark Zandi

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' — Mos Def

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions. — Robert Menzies

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist. — Ronald Reagan

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control. — Thomas Sowell

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer. — Mark McKinnon

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden

I'm an economist, not a political scientist. — Dambisa Moyo

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. — Will Rogers

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. — Emily Oster

Report in The Economist as much as 97 per cent of the world's plant and animal species may still await discovery. Of — Bill Bryson

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. — Peter Drucker

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist. — Jerry Yang

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk. — Richard Thaler

...she was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist. — Mary Doria Russell

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . . — Ronald Reagan

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine. — Harry Markowitz

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. — Ben Stein

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. — Edward Glaeser

An economist is a man that can tell you ... what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too. — Will Rogers

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. — Nolan Gould

An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. — Art Buchwald

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist. — Richard Davenport-Hines

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. — Rupert Murdoch

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people. — Richard Thaler

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist. — Mike Duke

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line. — Hans-Werner Sinn

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. — Todd Rokita

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong. — Robert Kuttner

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Alfred A. Knopf

I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant. — Marc Faber

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision. — Muhammad Yunus

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler

A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. — Steven D. Levitt

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that. — Alan Greenspan

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power. — Sarah Steelman

Beware of economists who hide assumptions. — Anat R. Admati

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter. — Frederick Winslow Taylor

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson

Economics is too important to leave to the economists. — Steve Keen

I am not an economist ... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary. — Sukarno

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E.F. Schumacher

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'. — Nelson DeMille

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist. — Tim Jackson

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much. — Paul Krugman

I'm not going to put my lot in with economists. — Hillary Clinton

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am not and should not be considered an economist. — Sylvia Porter

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'. — Harry S. Truman

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-The Economist- — Samuel Gompers

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly. — Robert W. Cox

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. — Dan Kaminsky

I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future. — Walt Disney Company

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. — Michael Moore

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer — Tam David-West

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre. — Harold Innis

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. — Thomas Carlyle

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith

You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis. — Thomas Sowell

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic. — Shereen El Feki

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. — Suraj Sharma

[I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. — Mark Haddon