Economist Quotes
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Inspirations for Business and Life
Economist Quotes and Sayings
"Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in the greater fool 4. Run with the herd. 5. Overgeneralize 6. Be trendy 7. Play with other people's money." ~ Paul Krugman, Fortune.
"Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive work. " ~ John Stuart Mill, 1867
"The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets." ~ Baron Rothschild
"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's." ~ Will Rogers
"There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program." ~ Milton Friedman
"The best opportunities come in times of maximum pessimism." ~ Sir John Templeton
"Just because economists expect the economy to keep growing doesn't mean that the economy will actually keep growing. Economists have a terrible track record when it comes to predicting recessions (they almost never see them coming)." ~ Henry Blodget
"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay." ~ Charles Dickens
"A home without equity is just a rental with debt." ~ Steve Eisman
"The 'human condition' is always to push forward for the better, and economics is the study of that process." ~ Brian Wesbury
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"The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy." ~ David Cameron
"After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government." ~ Calvin Coolidge
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best." ~ Thomas Sowell
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it." ~ Thomas Sowell
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist." ~ Thomas Carlyle