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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
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
— Barry Ritholtz
When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance
— Phil Harding
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
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Economists have much to be humble about.
— Paul Samuelson
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
— Andy Hargreaves
Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.
— Robert Ludlum
The economists will have to revise their theories of value.
— Albert Einstein
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
— Paul Krugman
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
— Garrett Hardin
Economists suggest that we should assess the value of decisions in terms of two considerations: the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
— Cass R. Sunstein
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
— Al Nichol
Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.
— Richard Davenport-Hines
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
— Vladimir Lenin
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
— John Maynard Keynes
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
— Robert Menzies
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
— Margaret Thatcher
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
— Joseph Stiglitz
If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
— Kirk Kerkorian
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
— Friedrich Engels
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
— Ian Frazier
An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.
— Dani Rodrik
A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.
— Alvin E. Roth
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
— Ronald Coase
The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.
— Steven Magee
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.
— Richard Thaler
When economists get it right, the world gets better.
— Dani Rodrik
A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow
— Miles Thomas
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!
— Peter Drucker
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
— George Stigler
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
— Thomas Sowell
Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?
— Yasheng Huang
People dreaming ,economists steals their dreams and politicians kills it
— Mohammed Sekouty
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
— Edmund Phelps
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
— Aldo Leopold
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Smarter people tend to think more like economists
— Steven Pinker
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
— Mark Zandi
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
— David Suzuki
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.
— Ivan Illich
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
— Thomas Piketty
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
— Jean-Paul Kauffmann
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Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
— Anat R. Admati
As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.
— Robert Lane Greene
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
— Adam Davidson
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
— Thomas J. Sargent
The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply.
— N. Gregory Mankiw
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
— John Ralston Saul
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
— Edward Abbey
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.
— Rebecca West
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
— Daniel Kahneman
In the 1990s, economists predicted only 2 of the 60 recessions around the world a year ahead of time.
— Nate Silver
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
— Edgar Fiedler
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
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
— George Bernard Shaw
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
— Brian Tracy
Economists and psychologists get confused when they are asked 'out of syllabus' questions by life!
— Saurabh Sharma
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
— Mary E. Pearson
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
