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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
John Maynard Keynes
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John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
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Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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