Economist/professions

Famous quotes containing the words economist and/or professions:

“As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.”
—Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.

Dutch expression.