Economist Quotes · Page 22

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.…

— Charlie Munger

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine…

— Robert Orben

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Will Rogers

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't…

— Mark Zandi

We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial…

— Bernie Sanders

I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote…

— James K. Galbraith

Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of…

— James M. Buchanan

Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from…

— David Brooks

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Henry Hazlitt

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps…

— Milton Friedman

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

— Nelson DeMille

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It…

— Peter Block

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

— Diane Kochilas

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

— Warren Buffett

I am not and should not be considered an economist.

— Sylvia Porter

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State…

— Jennifer Gilmore

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as…

— E. F. Schumacher

Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed…

— Jean Chretien

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides…

— William Vickrey

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

— Richard Thaler

[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of…

— Barbara Bergmann

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and…

— Michael Kinsley

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

— Mos Def