I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

- Mark McKinnon

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

- Shereen El Feki

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

- Simon Hoggart

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

- Sebastiao Salgado

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

- Rafael Correa

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

- Peter Blair Henry

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

- Nelson DeMille

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

- Mike Duke

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

- Alan Greenspan

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

- Mos Def

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a broadcaster. I've been an adviser. I worked for Ronald Reagan.

- Lawrence Kudlow

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

- Laurence J. Peter

My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.

- George Akerlof

For economist the real world is often a special case.

- Edgar Fiedler

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

- Ben Stein

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

- Alfred A. Knopf

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

- Ali Babacan