Economist Quote by Alan Greenspan Download Open image “I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.” — Alan Greenspan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economist Player
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
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
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… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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