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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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.
John Maynard Keynes
... 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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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes
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.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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