Ability Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is…

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Anonymous

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good…

— Will Rogers

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

— William Nordhaus

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes