I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' — Mos Def Copy Share Image
It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter. — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
Economist should be spelled echonomist, because they all repeat each other. — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” — Kenneth Boulding Copy Share Image
All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I have been…moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over… — John Fund Copy Share Image
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Ben Bernanke is like an economist on a misty morning, because he hasn’t the foggiest clue.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
