Economists are people who like to work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.
- Anonymous
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
- Thomas Carlyle
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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 (1741 - 1794)
One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.
- Ronald Reagan
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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