It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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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 importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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