I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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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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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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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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