Economist Quote by 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

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Robert Kuttner

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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 man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Anonymous

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

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 surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I am a trained economist.

— Gita Gopinath