John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• When the facts change, I change my mind.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Mind, Facts

  "The Keynes Centenary". "The Economist" (Vol. 287, p. 19), 1983.

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Power, Government

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Insightful, Investing

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Justice, Political, Liberty

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Investing, Investment

  Forbes v. 151, iss. 4, (p. 236), 1993.

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Investing, Pounds

  Time magazine, February 17, 1947.

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• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Successful, Investing

  "Isms" by Gregory Bergman, (p. 105), 2006.

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• The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Animal, Spirit, Reason

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 7, p. 161, February 1936.

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• The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, People, Problem

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• There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing, World, Investment

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• Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Men, Air

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money bk. 6, ch. 24 (1936)

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Economics, Indifferent

  "Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading" by Leo Calvin Rosten, (p. 165), 1979.

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• The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing, Unexpected, Expected

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• I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Sight, Alternatives

  End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 5

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• The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

  John Maynard Keynes

  Past, Light, Together

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, People

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• The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Slumps, Investing, Austerity

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Important, Done

  The End of Laissez-Faire pt. 4 (1926)

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Psychology

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• An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Safety, Needs, Resources

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.141, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Fun, Business, Men

  Attributed by Michael Albert, "Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy", (p. 128), 2000.

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