The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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 am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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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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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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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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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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