It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen the facts change, I change my mind.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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 believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, 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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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