Economist quotes

If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Thinking #Economist

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
-- Anat R. Admati

#Assumption #Economist

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).
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Next #Economics #Economist

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

#Economy #Ecology #Economist

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.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Love #Lovers #Economist

I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,
-- Christine Lagarde

#Fields #Scientist #Economist

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

#Psychologist #Economist #Utility

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.
-- David Cameron

#Trying #Cost #Economist

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.
-- Dennis Holme Robertson

#Economics #Efficiency #Economist

Progess, do not regress.
-- Edward C. Prescott

#Economist

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

#Airplane #People #Economist

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Differences #Economist #Accounts

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
-- George Stigler

#Two #Milton #Economist

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
-- Herbert Marshall

#Should #Applause #Economist

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

#Feminist #Economist #Von Mises

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.
-- Joan Robinson

#Business #Principles #Economist

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
-- Mark Zandi

#Challenges #Perception #Economist

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
-- Mos Def

#Financial #Busters #Economist

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
-- Nate Silver

#Pessimistic #Economy #Economist

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
-- Nelson DeMille

#Economist

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.
-- Paul Krugman

#Thinking #Too Much #Economist

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.
-- Peter Blair Henry

#Life Is #Economist #Trade

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

#Predictions #Economist

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
-- Rupert Murdoch

#Weather #Looks #Economist

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
-- Sebastiao Salgado

#Photography #School #Economist

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.
-- Steve Keen

#Important #Economics #Economist

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
-- Suraj Sharma

#Dad #My Dad #Economist

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer
-- Tam David-West

#Economist

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.
-- Tim Harford

#More To Life #Economist #Accounts

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
-- William Gilmore Simms

#Believe #Humor #Economist

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
-- William Stanley Jevons

#Theory #Difficulty #Economist

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

#Shock Therapy #Shock #Economist

If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income, because they'd pay a higher wage if they didn't take it. That's a huge loss to the Treasury.
-- T.R. Reid

#Loss #Economist #Treasury

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.
-- Richard Thaler

#People #Longevity #Economist

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
-- Robert Mugabe

#Politician #Economist #Storyteller

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
-- Frederick Winslow Taylor

#Easier #Economist #Reporters

It's usually much easier for people with professional skills to find work for themselves or even possibly to continue with their old employer, but on a part-time basis. Some labor economists predict that in about five years there will be a labor shortage in the United States and that demand for retirees to work part-time will grow naturally. I don't know if that's true or just wishful predicting.
-- Hedrick Smith

#People #Economist #Labor

I am not and should not be considered an economist.
-- Sylvia Porter

#Should #Economist

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

#Able #Crisis #Economist

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
-- Katty Kay

#People #Economist #Policy