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One Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
- Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
- There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
- Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
- A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional…
- It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life…
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