Economist Quotes
A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.
Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
