It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOnce doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESExperience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESInvesting is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESGovernment machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMost men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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