Economics Quote by Anonymous

“A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow”

— Anonymous

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

— Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

— Earl Wilson

An accountant is a man who puts his head in the past and backs his ass into the future.

— F. Ross Johnson

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

— Robert Kuttner

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen. —Earl Wilson”

— Eric Siegel

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment…

— Tim Harford

I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds…

— Lyndon LaRouche

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

— Robert Orben

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

— Warren Buffett