An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.

-- Anonymous

 

Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.

-- Thomas Carlyle

 

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

-- Peter F. Drucker

 

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