I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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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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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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