The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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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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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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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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