It 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 KEYNESWhenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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.
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