Economist Quote by Herbert Stein

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

— Paul Krugman

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

— Herbert Stein

If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop.

— Herbert Stein

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

— Herbert Stein

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

— George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

— Peter Lynch

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

— Anonymous

“The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that “anyone who believes exponential growth…

— Geoffrey West

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

— Andy Rooney

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

— Anonymous