Top 287 Economist Quotes & Sayings

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

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

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

I am not and should not be considered an 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.

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

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

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

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

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

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

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

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

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

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.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I have never considered myself an economist.

I'm a big fan of economist Milton Freidman.

I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

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

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

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

I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition toward our side - but this economist did a study. He said under [Donald] Trump's economic plans, we would lose in America 3 and a half million jobs.

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

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

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

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

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

I am a trained economist.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

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

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.