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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAll the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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