All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAmericans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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