Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is… — 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… — 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
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August 1914! The… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity. — 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
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. — 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
