College Quote by Kenneth Arrow

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

— Ben Bernanke

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

— Brit Marling

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

— Herb Ritts

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

— Chris Smalling

I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It's a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about…

— Gerard Pique

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And…

— Merlin Olsen

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory…

— Michael Spence

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey