A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes 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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