Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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 has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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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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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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