“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.

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.

The idea behind stamped money is sound.

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.

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.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.