It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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 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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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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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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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 markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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