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Quotes about Economics

Well! Fed up with the boring Economics?? Let us see what others have to say about this strange field of study.



If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw


Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith



An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter


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



An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn’t know any women. Art Buchwald


For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.  Morris Udall


Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. More funny Herbert Hoover quotes
If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimensional diagrams. Solow


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  Sam Ewing


Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. Edgar R. Fiedler


“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. Lyndon B. Johnson


“The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.”



"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Oscar Wilde.



“Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.”



“Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.”




Always borrow money from a pessimist, he never expects to be paid back’. Anon


A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. Robert Frost


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


You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. Margaret Thatcher




"President Bush's economic plan will create 2.5 million new jobs. The bad news, they are all for Iraqi soldiers." Craig Kilborn

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