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

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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
~Nicholas Chamfort

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

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

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I enjoy being in school. I've learned so much already, with taking economics and law, and I have marketing and statistics coming up next.
~Lisa Leslie

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I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy.
~Vaclav Klaus

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

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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
~Peter Drucker

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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
~Kelvin Throop III

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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
~Earl Blumenauer

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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
~Christopher Lasch

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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
~Lester Brown

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That construction techniques, materials and economics are relevant. Along with that, hopefully, some poetry and pleasantness in terms of looks.
~Robin Day

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
~Richard Feynman

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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
~Chester Bowles

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