IFAonline's pick of the best financial quotes

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Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde and Spike Milligan as financial philosophers?

Yep, apparently. But they're in good company. Here, IFAonline has pooled together some of the best ever financial utterances. Enjoy. "An economist forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention." Anon "Teach a parrot the words 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist." Thomas Carlyle "If all economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion." George Bernard Shaw "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on the weather forecasters." Jean Paul Kauffmann ...

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