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John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.
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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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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
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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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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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
John Maynard Keynes
I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes
