John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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  The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

   

  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 difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

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  The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.

   

  John Maynard Keynes

• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

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• Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

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  Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

   

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• Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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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 ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes

• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

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• I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

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• I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

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• For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

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• Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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• By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

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• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  John Maynard Keynes

• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

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John Maynard Keynes (42)

Birth:	5th June, 1883
Death:	21st April, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist

About

John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. He was the founder of modern macroeconomics theory. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots. In 1897, he won a scholarship to Eton College. He earned a BA degree in Mathematics from King's College, Cambridge University in 1904. By 1909 he had published his first professional economics article in the Economics Journal, about the effect of a recent global economic downturn on India. On being elected a fellow in 1911 he was made editor of The Economic Journal. He wrote several books include: Indian Currency and Finance, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, A Treatise on Probability, A Revision of the Treaty, A Treatise on Money, Essays in Persuasion, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and How to Pay for the War.

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