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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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 avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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