All John Maynard Keynes Quotes
- It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges. Agreed
- If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. Business
- The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. Bad Ass
- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. Astounding
- In the long run we are all dead. All
- By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. Citizens
- The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and… Arena
- The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. Any
- Ideas shape the course of history. Brainstorming
- Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Affair
- Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. Economics
- The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent.… Beautiful
- Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. Assault
- Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. Confusion
- If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. Competent
- The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. Business
- For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul… Another Hundred
- The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. Dark
- Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. Chiefly
- Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. Anticipating
- A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. Constitution
- Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. American
- I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. Capitalism
- The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas… Autocracy
- But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I… Addressed