“The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.”

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.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Economics is a very dangerous science.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Big girls need big diamonds.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.

The true value of a big dream is who you must grow into to live that dream.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.