All Quotes

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
‐‐ Ben Miles

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
‐‐ James Buchan

Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets

Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
‐‐ Joseph Stiglitz

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.
‐‐ Emily Oster

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.
‐‐ Vitruvius

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
‐‐ Clara Barton

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
‐‐ Colin Powell

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
‐‐ David James Duncan

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
‐‐ Errol Morris

Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
‐‐ Rafael Correa

Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
‐‐ Rafael Correa

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.
‐‐ Michael Gove

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
‐‐ Alan King

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
‐‐ Fred Allen

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K.
‐‐ David Hewson

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
‐‐ Lee Tergesen

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
‐‐ Don Rickles

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
‐‐ Dale Murphy

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
‐‐ Bruce Vilanch

Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer