Competence Quote by Henry Kissinger

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— William Nordhaus

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate…

— Thomas Sowell

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I am a trained economist.

— Gita Gopinath

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

— John Maynard Keynes

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

— Jim Rohn

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

— Jim Rohn

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

— Steve Jobs