Competent Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

— Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

— Dick Cavett

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't…

— Tim Harford

You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

— Thomas Sowell

“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.

— Bonnie McFarlane

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of…

— Paul Theroux

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks…

— Pauline Hanson