Business Quote by Harry S. Truman

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

— Brian Tracy

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what…

— James Heckman

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

— David Suzuki

Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for…

— Barack Obama

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

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

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

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

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

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi