Economics Quote by John Forbes Nash, Jr

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— William Nordhaus

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

— Ben Stein

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it

— Anonymous

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

— Thomas J. Sargent

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down…

— Paul Samuelson

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.

— Diane Coyle

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

— Robert Orben

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

— Anonymous

For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a…

— James Heckman