An economist is someone who tells you what to do with your money after you have already spent it.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on for ever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Just remember, if you think you know nothing about economics, then you are ahead of economists, because what economists "know" is of negative value.

An economist is someone who didn't have enough personality to become an accountant.

If you were in the USA and economists were doctors, the courts would be full of malpractice suits.

99 percent of economists give the rest a bad name.

God created economists to make weather forecasters look good.

To an economist, real life is a special case.

An economist is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Economists love poor people, that is why they support policies that increase their number.

Put all the economists in a straight line and they will never reach a conclusion.

Economists deserve our respect, if only for the great variety of opinions they hold.

Economists make economic predictions, not because they know anything, but because they are asked.

Economists are not being rational when they believe in rational behaviour.

If economists set out to maximize GNP, why don't composers maximize the number of notes in a symphony.

What do you call a pile of shit with a 40cent stamp on it? - An economic package.

The only true fiction is economic theory.

No amputee can become an economist because they wont be able to say "on one hand ..., on the other hand ..."

It is an economic sin for economists to lobby government and influence government policy.

The "market model" depends on full market information so that is why businesses that operate in the market protect their "commercially sensitive" information.

Economists have successfully predicted eight of the last three booms and nine of the last three recessions.

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable feel comfortable.

Economists have two insights; markets work, and markets fail.

Economists do not have an open mind; their brains would fall out.

The promotion of economic growth is simply a sophisticated way to steal from our children.

You will never meet the economist who admits his forecasts are totally wrong.

The crime of economists is not that they know too little about our economic system, but they think they "know" so much.

You will never meet the economist who has been sacked for giving bad advice.

The difference between mathematics and economics is that mathematics is incomprehensible, while economics just doesn't make any sense.

What economists manage to economise is reality, ethics, and equity.