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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' -- Mos Def
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -- Laurence J. Peter
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. -- Eric Alterman
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. -- George Stigler
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. -- Nassau William Senior
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. -- Thabo Mbeki
I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'. -- Nelson DeMille
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer -- Tam David-West
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic. -- Shereen El Feki
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes. -- Janine di Giovanni
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. -- Ed Balls
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment bank's name on business television is to hire a guy called a Chief Economist who will go and prognosticate. -- Tim Harford
Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason. -- Michael Specter
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems. -- Tim Harford
In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world. -- Wangechi Mutu
For economist the real world is often a special case. -- Edgar Fiedler
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. -- Suraj Sharma
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. -- Herbert Marshall
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. -- Will Rogers
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that. -- Alan Greenspan
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.. -- Edgar Fiedler
I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. -- Rupert Murdoch
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. -- Walter Bagehot
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. -- Peter Lynch
Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist. -- Jerry Yang
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. -- Milton Friedman
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' -- Andrew Lo
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. -- John Maynard Keynes
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. -- Edmund Burke
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Mark Zandi
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. -- Bill Vaughan
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist. -- Tim Jackson
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. -- Joan Robinson
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. -- Ronald Reagan
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. -- John T. Flynn
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. -- Emily Oster
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
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. -- Martin Feldstein
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. -- George Stigler
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. -- Ben Bernanke
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. -- Karl Rove
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. -- Larry Page
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. -- Timothy Noah
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. -- Martin Feldstein
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
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back -- John Maynard Keynes
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. -- Muhammad Yunus
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. -- Janet Yellen
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. -- Marc Faber
I am not an economist. I am an honest man! -- Mark Twain
I'm a better economist than I was a sax player. -- Alan Greenspan
I am not and should not be considered an economist. -- Sylvia Porter
What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong. -- Robert Kuttner
Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine. -- Harry Markowitz
No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool -- John Warren Kindt
Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre. -- Harold Innis
I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy. -- Diane Kochilas
As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs. -- Peter Blair Henry
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. -- Robert Orben
History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. -- Edward Gibbon
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. -- Ilana Mercer
I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'. -- Harry S. Truman
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. -- Warren Buffett
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. -- Sebastiao Salgado
Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. -- Henry Hazlitt
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter. -- Frederick Winslow Taylor
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be. -- Murray Rothbard
A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. -- Hillary Clinton
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. -- Harry S. Truman
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..." -- Herbert Hoover
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist -- David Attenborough
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. -- George Bernard Shaw
An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. -- Edward Glaeser
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. -- E. F. Schumacher
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. -- Dan Kaminsky
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist. -- Mart Laar
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power. -- Sarah Steelman
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women. -- Art Buchwald
I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something. -- Nolan Gould
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. -- Emily Oster
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. -- Ben Stein
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory. -- Ronald Reagan
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do? -- Andrew Lo
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. -- Winona LaDuke
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. -- Robert Breault
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. -- Thomas J. Sargent
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. -- Thomas J. Sargent
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. -- Michael Moore
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know? -- Robert Mugabe
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. -- Milton Friedman
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. -- John Maynard Keynes
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. -- William Nordhaus
To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist. -- Diane Coyle
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. -- Richard Thaler
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. -- David Attenborough
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
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand." -- Thomas Carlyle
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. -- Joseph Joubert
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter Drucker
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
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control. -- Thomas Sowell
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. -- Thomas Sowell
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

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