It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWe will not have any more crashes in our time.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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 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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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