Air Quote by Paul Samuelson

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and,…

— Burton Malkiel

“professional money managers perform no better than simple market averages,”

— Richard H. Thaler

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

— Frank Knight

Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.

— Orrin Woodward

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients'…

— Michael Lewis

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

— Neal A. Maxwell

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.”

— Lawrence A. Cunningham

“You take corporate money and give it to a neutral-sounding think tank,” which “hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put out credible-seeming…

— Jane Mayer

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

— Henry Hazlitt

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker