"A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim."

~ Kenneth Chang

"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

"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year."

~ Marty Allen

"The First Law of Economics: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist. The Second Law of Economics: They're both wrong."

~ Anonymous

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

"Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!"

~ Paul Samuelson

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

~ George Bernard Shaw

"We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children."

~ Warren Buffett

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

~ Steven Wright