Economics Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— William Nordhaus

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

— Anonymous

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

— Robert Orben

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

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

— Robert Kuttner

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— 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

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a…

— Stephen J. Dubner

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke