As long as you have common sense, you have the potential to be a far greater economist than any of those «professional» ones. (politics.stackexchange.com)
This writer used to call the late, great economist Milton Friedman at the Hoover Institution, and if Friedman wasn't available, he'd return my calls collect. (fortune.com)
The late, great economist Kenneth Boulding once remarked that if physical systems were as complex as social systems, we would creep hesitantly out of bed each morning, not knowing whether we were about to crash to the floor or float to the ceiling. (ascd.org)