Economist Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical…

— Henry Kissinger

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

— William Nordhaus

Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do

— Peter Boettke

“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

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

— Anonymous

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Benjamin Graham