It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
