Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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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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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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