When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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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