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John Maynard Keynes Inspirational Quotes (119)

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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.
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The duty of saving became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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