It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESPractical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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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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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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