As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. — 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