We will not have any more crashes in our time.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen the facts change, I change my mind.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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 sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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?
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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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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