Economics Quotes

• With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Field
  • Method
  • Prize

• People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Running
  • Certainty

• Economics is not brain surgery.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Economics
  • Brain surgery

• ...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

  

  Carlo M. Cipolla
  • Quality
  • Brilliant
  • Quantity

• Software engineering economics.

  

  Barry Boehm
  • Engineering
  • Economics
  • Software

• In the world of traditional economics, it shouldn't matter whether you use an opt-in or opt-out system. So long as the costs of registering as a donor or a nondonor are low, the results should be similar. But many findings of behavioral economics show that tiny disparities in such rules can make a big difference.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Should
  • Difference
  • Behavioral

• Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

  

  George Gilder
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Behinds

• Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.

  

  Paul Samuelson
  • Economics
  • Alternatives
  • Trade-offs

• It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Health
  • Stress

• We The Replacements never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Money
  • Economics
  • Rock And Roll

• If it's free put me down for two please

  

  Rolf Harris
  • Economics
  • Please

• I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Influence

• If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Economics
  • Crash

• Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Financial
  • Values
  • Method

• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  

  Gerry Harvey
  • Couple
  • Lawyer
  • Farmers

• The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Design
  • Imagine
  • Liberty

• The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.

  

  Paul Samuelson
  • Home
  • Economics
  • Subject

• Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Interest
  • Economy
  • Fields

• Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

  

  Andy Bechtolsheim
  • Win
  • Economics
  • Barriers

• There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Absurd
  • Concepts
  • Fairness

• I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Theory
  • Economics
  • Princeton

• The difficulty with all of these things comes around economics and how much of what you see as your baby you are willing to give up to be part of something.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Economics
  • Willing
  • Difficulty

• The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

  

  Joseph Stiglitz
  • Religion
  • Economics
  • Ideology

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