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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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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
John Maynard Keynes
The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
John Maynard Keynes
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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
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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
John Maynard Keynes
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
John Maynard Keynes
The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
John Maynard Keynes
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
John Maynard Keynes
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
