Economics Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

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

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

— Mark Twain

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good…

— Will Rogers

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Anonymous

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

— Will Rogers

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

— Thomas J. Sargent

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

— Kirk Kerkorian

An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.

— Art Buchwald

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

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

I am not and should not be considered an economist.

— Sylvia Porter

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler