The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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