Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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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