Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
John Maynard Keynes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
Businessperson
Diplomat
Economist
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Politician
Professor
Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
Political
Economics
Problem
Mankind
Things
Liberty
Economic
Justice
Individual
Social
Combine
Three
Efficiency
More quotes by John Maynard Keynes
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
John Maynard Keynes
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
John Maynard Keynes
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
John Maynard Keynes
Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
John Maynard Keynes
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
John Maynard Keynes
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
John Maynard Keynes
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.
John Maynard Keynes
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
John Maynard Keynes
It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion
John Maynard Keynes
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
John Maynard Keynes
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.
John Maynard Keynes
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
John Maynard Keynes
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
John Maynard Keynes
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
John Maynard Keynes
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 social services not less useful or difficult?
John Maynard Keynes
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
John Maynard Keynes
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
John Maynard Keynes
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
John Maynard Keynes
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
John Maynard Keynes
