economist Quotes

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

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

I have never considered myself an economist.

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

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

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

'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.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

As a Harvard Ph.D. economist and U.C. Irvine professor, Dr. Navarro has been instrumental in challenging the prevailing Washington orthodoxy on so-called free trade.

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

I am a trained economist.

I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.

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

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Milton Friedman is a man with dangerously simplistic visions and explanations of the economic world.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'