When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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