The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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.
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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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 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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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 considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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