A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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 a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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 political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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