Economics

29 quotes.

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

  Laurence J. Peter

• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

• There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Milton Friedman

• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  Everett Dirksen

• A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

  Anonymous

• An economist is an expert who will know tommorow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter

• An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

  John H. Patterson

• Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers, six if one went to Harvard.

  Edgar R. Fiedler

• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

  Keynes

• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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

  Anonymous

• I am not an economist. I am an honsest man!

  Paul McCracken

• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  Mark Twain

• I'd give $1000 to be a millionaire.

  Lewis Timberlake

• I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.

  Arthur Godfrey

• If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better.

  Karl Marx's mother

• If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

  Anonymous

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  J. Paul Getty

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

  Cincinnati Enquirer

• Money couldnt buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.

  Spike Milligan

• Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

  Anonymous

• Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

  James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  Karl Marx

• The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.

  IRS auditor

• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

  Adlai Stevenson, in Bill Adler, The Stevenson Wit

• What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

  Frank Adams

• When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

  H. V. Prochnow

• When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

  Voltaire

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