It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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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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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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