Academic Quote by Charlie Munger

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

— Brit Marling

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And…

— Merlin Olsen

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

“Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to…

— Chip Heath

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would…

— Henry Hazlitt

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

— Ben Bernanke

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a…

— Ashraf Ghani

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of…

— Lawrence O'Donnell