Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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 somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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As 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.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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