John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being…
• 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…
• The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
• [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of…
• Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which…
• Chess is a cure for headaches.
• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
• Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the…
• It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct…
• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to…
• The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition…
• He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
• Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only…
• Men will not always die quietly.
• The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized…
• Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
• I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis…

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