Answers Quote by George Stigler

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

— Warren Buffett

“When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.”

— Jean Tirole

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely tolerated.

— Warren Berger

Some people always know the price, but not the value

— Oscar Wilde

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

— Daniel Kahneman

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being…

— Joan Robinson

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

— Gerhard Schroder

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

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith