20th century Quote by Guy Standing

“A sound banker is not one who foresees danger and avoids it,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “but one who, when he is ruined, is…

— Anonymous

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that,…

— Ben Bernanke

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time…

— Julian Simon

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

— Warren Buffett

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince…

— L. Neil Smith

“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes famously said. “What do you do, sir?”

— Nate Silver

“paraphrase economist John Maynard Keynes: reputations fare better if we are conventionally wrong than if we are unconventionally right.”

— Michelle Baddeley

“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national debt. In…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability…

— Robert H. Frank

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

— Leonard Woolf