Q Quotes

1. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee

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

3. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

4. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. – Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

5. 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.- John Robinson (1903-1983)

6. I was in search of a one-armed economist so that the guy could never make a statement and then say, ‘’On the other hand…’’ – Harry S. Trueman (1884-1972)

7. I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws – or crafts its advanced treaties – if I can write its economics textbooks. – Paul A. Samuelson (1915- ) author of Economics: An Introductory Analysis, 1948, the largest selling economic textbook in history.