Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
While I haven't read economist Robin Hahnel's work, replacing capitalism would be at the very bottom of my list of priorities -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The economist Juliet Schor talks about how our reference group has changed over the last twenty-five years. As we spend less time… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol Copy Share Image
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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