All John Maynard Keynes Quotes
- Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who… Academic
- Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the… Age
- If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. Bank
- So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike,… Absolutely
- How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing… Cities
- It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. Better
- When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. Compromise
- The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his… Activities
- When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done Activities
- Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Inspirational
- The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. Combine
- When the facts change, I change my mind. Business
- The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in… Abolishing
- The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have… Been
- The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… Both
- Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. All
- One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact,… Accompli
- If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours. Debt
- The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved,… Best
- The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas Compared
- The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life… Criminal