An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
经济学家是这样的人，他用难懂的专业词汇讲大家都懂的道理。
Alfred A. Knopf（1892-1984）美国出版商
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) 爱尔兰剧作家
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
经济学是一个对经济学家来讲极其有用的职业名称。
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) 美国经济学家
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
经济学家是一个到明天就会知道为什么他昨天的预言没有在今天发生的专家。
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1990) 加拿大教育家
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a larough-edged ncet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
经济学家是一个外科医生，拿着快的解剖刀和钝的手术刀，很漂亮的解剖死者和折磨生者。
Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
在有记载的历史上还没有一个经济学家担心过下一顿饭从何而来。
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) 奥地利管理学家
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
政府对经济的态度可以归结为三个阶段：它动弹的时候就收税。它继续动，那就管制。如果它不动了，那就扶植它。
Ronald Reagan ( 1911-2004)美国前总统
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
经济学的第一堂课就讲不足：没有任何东西可以满足所有需要它们的人。而政治学的第一堂课就是无视经济学第一堂课讲的内容。
Thomas Sowell (1930- ) 美国经济学家
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
真正的个人自由不可能存在于没有经济安全和独立的情况下。饥饿和失业的人们是制造独裁者的原料。
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 美国前总统，西奥多·罗斯福的外甥
Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
你有没有想过做一个关于经济的演说很像是尿在你的腿上？它对你来说好像是热的，但其他人却没有感觉。
Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1908-1973) 美国前总统
Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions.
经济学家是悲观主义者：他们预测出最近3个不景气里面的8个。
Barry Asmus
Economy is how to spend money without enjoying it.
经济学就是讲怎么样花钱，而不能享受那个过程。
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
经济就是我们今天准备好来支付明天取得的改善的方法。
Calvin Coolidge ( 1872-1933) 美国前总统
Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.
经济学家就是和数字打交道但不适合做会计的人。
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
经济学里的一条鸿沟存在于我们拥有的和我们认为我们应该拥有的之间——而这是个道德问题，而不是经济学问题。
Paul Heyne （1931-2000）
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
被高税率束缚的经济永远都无法产生足够的收入来平衡支出，就像它永远不会创造足够的就业或足够的利润一样。
John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( 1917-1963) 美国前总统
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. （1999）
就在5年前，我们把网络只是看作新媒体，而不是新经济。
Clement Mok （1958- ）美国设计师，软件工程师
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
你不觉得这很奇怪吗？就是那些嘲笑吉普赛预言家的人在认真的听经济学家讲话。
When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that's called "economic reform".
当国际货币基金组织和世界银行强迫一个国家削减工资，解雇工人，为出口生产而不是为了本国的人，把公共财产便宜卖给伙伴时，这被称为“经济改革”。
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
经济学是一门不大尊重个人愿望的学科。
Nikita Khrushchev ( 1894-1971) 前苏联共产党第一书记
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
我们一直都知道漠不关心的利己主义是坏的道德行为；我们现在知道了它还是坏的经济行为。
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
基于一个不太恰当的人类动机理论的古典经济学理论，如果接受人类有更高需求这个事实，包括自我实现的驱使和对最高价值的热爱，那它会发生彻底变革。
Abraham Maslow ( 1908-1970) 美国心理学家
We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
我们还是做了（迪斯尼乐园），即使知道这个情况，就是和我交谈的大部分人都认为它将成为财务上的一个灾难——在第一年关闭并被遗忘。
Walt Disney ( 1901-1966) 美国电影制作人，动画作家
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
亨利·福特说的对。一个繁荣的经济要求工人能买得起他们生产的东西。这不管是在一国经济中，还是在全球经济中都是正确的。
John J. Sweeney（1934- ） 美国劳工联合会-产业工会联合会主席
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