Economics Quote by William Nordhaus

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Orben

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

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

— Robert Kuttner

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

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

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

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

— Peter Boettke

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

— Mark Twain