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"31 John Maynard Keynes Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 June 1883 | Economist |

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

Better Roughly Right Wrong
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People will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

People Rational Exploring Alternatives
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Men will not always die quietly

Men Die Quietly
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Ideas shape the course of history.
Ideas Shape Course History
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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.

Investment Ignorance Time Future
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

Capitalism Belief Men God
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out

Harm Wrong Found out
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil

Ideas Interests Dangerous Good
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Men Love Money Security
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent

Education Inculcation Indifferent Incompetent
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid

Economist Humble Competent Splendid
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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.

Man Conservative Present Past
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Words Wild Thoughts Unthinking
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli

Politicians Masters Fate Job
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Political Mankind Economic Liberty
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

Markets Moved Spirits Reason
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Problem People Accept New ideas
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Markets Irrational Longer Remain
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly

Doubt Begins Rapidly
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind

Study History Opinion Mind
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Wordly wisdom Teaches Fail Succeed
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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

Businessman Tolerable Gains Soceity
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

Save Man Work Day
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When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do

Facts Change Mind
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
Importance Money Present Future
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own

Nothing Mattered Mind Own
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With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent

Breakdown Money Practice Prevalent
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Work Government Despise Criminal
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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

Inflation Government Wealth Citizens
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

Foolish Contemplate Possibility Progress
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Succesful Investing Anticpating
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John Maynard Keynes Quotes & Sayings