Economist Quotes

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

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

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

Economists have much to be humble about.

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

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

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 as anybody else's too.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

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

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.