Chiefs Quote by Jane Bryant Quinn

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“He would joke that “stock-market forecasters exist to make astrologers look good.”

— Jonathan Clements

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

— Eugene Fama

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to…

— Warren Buffett

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

— Warren Buffett

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

— Rafael Correa

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

— Donald T. Regan

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally even deranging.

— Edgar Fiedler

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

“Astrologers should look at things in new ways; try out new ideas, hold on to what is workable (and provable); but let go of…

— Rosemary Peel