It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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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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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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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