John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
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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…
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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…
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
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[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…
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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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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…
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
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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…
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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…
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Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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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