It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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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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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 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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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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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.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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