01.28.06
Economics Quotes
Economics Quotes
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
- Joan Robinson
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.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) US President (36), Vice President (37)
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
- Jim Rohn
One thing about Ronald Reagan that struck me time and again was his obvious, visceral loathing of communism. For him it wasn’t just a difference of opinion about economics or governance: he saw through the whole thing to its essentially anti-human nature. And this was at a time, we all too easily forget, when plenty of people in the West — I think a majority of the intellectual classes even as late as the 1980s — didn’t mind communism at all, thought in fact that it was just the ticket, if perhaps not for the USA, at least for poor counties like Nicaragua. Reagan had the firmest, clearest, truest moral compass of any modern President. May he rest in peace.
- John Derbyshire
