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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'


Muhammad Yunus


#become #business #business world #create #different

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.


Mark Zandi


#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.


Mark Zandi


#america #body #called #economist #had

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


Thomas Carlyle


#economist #got #parrot #supply #teach

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.


Noam Chomsky


#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.


Laurence J. Peter


#economist #expert #happen #know #predicted

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.


Mark Zandi


#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #economists #eliminate

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


James Buchan


#economists #errors #like #punished #royal

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.


Paul Ryan


#capital #creation #death #deprives #discussion

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.


Nate Silver


#economists #economy #even #more #most






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