All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOnce doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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