A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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