Mark Twain Quotes About Economics

• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Smart

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

  Mark Twain

  Mistake, Thinking, Names

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.272, Penguin

• I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Years, Two

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.243

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