What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Frank Adams

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
Cincinnati Enquirer

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
Edgar R. Fiedler

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev (June 8, 1990)

The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.
IRS auditor

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
Keynes

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better.
Karl Marx's Mother

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
Paul McCracken

Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson

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

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. Prochnow

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson, in Bill Adler, The Stevenson Wit

I'd give $1000 to be a millionaire.
Lewis Timberlake

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be CPAs.

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.