Economist Quote by Herbert Hoover

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

— Harry S. Truman

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

— Harry S. Truman

“President Truman famously asked for a “one-armed economist” who would take a clear stand; he was sick and tired of economists who kept saying,…

— Daniel Kahneman

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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 an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

— Marc Faber

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

— Anonymous

“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'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

— Mark McKinnon

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Kirk Kerkorian