If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

- Herbert Stein

Trends that can't continue, won't.

- Herbert Stein

If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.

- Herbert Stein

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

- Herbert Stein

For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have …

- Herbert Stein

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

- Herbert Stein

[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to…

- Herbert Stein

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

- Herbert Stein

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

- Herbert Stein