A Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw
Irish - Playwright
July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

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

Peter Lynch

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Earl Wilson

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Malcolm Forbes

If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back

David J. C. MacKay

If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

Marissa Mayer

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.

Colin Blakemore

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

Dorothy Parker

There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.

Pankaj Mishra

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

George Bernard Shaw

My departure from Juve remains a regret, a mistake that taught me one thing - never make an immediate decision, at the end of the season, when everyone is 'boiling.' I have paid for such an experience.

Didier Deschamps

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.