I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAs time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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