A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 

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

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

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi 

An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
Anonymous 

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

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

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 

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