I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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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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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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