When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI 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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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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 power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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