Adviser Quote by Kirk Kerkorian

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“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

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

— Will Rogers

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

— Christopher Columbus

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the…

— George Gilder

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

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

— Benjamin Graham

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen