Top 28 Good Economist Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Paul Krugman
#3. You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.
Aldous Huxley
#4. Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
Thomas J. Sargent
#5. I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.
J. Lynn
#7. Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.
Amartya Sen
#9. An economist is a man that can tell you ... what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
Will Rogers
#10. For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
Ruben Hinojosa
#11. Justin: " ... Everyone you love is dead. That must be lonely."
Lenah: "It is. But it's not something that defines me. I don't let it.
Rebecca Maizel
#12. Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up.
Toni Sorenson
#13. [He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
Cecil Beaton
#14. Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.
Susan Collins
#15. If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.
Joycelyn Elders
#16. Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Jane Smiley
#18. 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
#19. The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.
Ram Dass
#20. But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
John Donne
#21. I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
Rupert Murdoch
#22. Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.
Paul Krugman
#23. 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers
#26. I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
Barack Obama
#27. Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
Annie Leibovitz
#28. 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
