Economist Quotes
Economist Quote of the day
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.
My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."
Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.
I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
