
Top 19 Great Economists Quotes
#1. In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
Ronald Coase
#2. All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
George Stigler
#3. There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them.
As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste your time trying to fight forecasters, stock analysts, economists and social scientists, except to play pranks on them.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#4. No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.
Vicente Del Bosque
#5. I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
#6. My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; the Great Depression made it so, and the talented younger economists at Ames during that period made it an exciting and profitable intellectual experience.
Theodore Schultz
#7. Everyone still sees the smiling Laura Palmer. The girl with perfect grades and perfect hair and perfect little fingers that want to sometimes, late at night, go into the mirror to strangle the daydreaming troublemaker I see in the reflection!
Jennifer Lynch
#8. One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
Robert Menzies
#9. Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
Flannery O'Connor
#10. The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.
Ludwig Von Mises
#11. I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.
Vinnie Paz
#12. Success will come when you choose to feed your dreams and starve your doubts.
Robert G. Allen
#15. Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.
Bob Frank
#16. I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
Steven Holl
#17. Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
Gavyn Davies
#18. Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.
Frans De Waal
#19. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine
Charles Dickens
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