I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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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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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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