"It is better that a man should tyrannize……" — John Maynard Keynes
"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens."
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John Maynard Keynes
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121 Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
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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…
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set…
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly…
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are…
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps…
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