It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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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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