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• The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Profit, Enterprise, Thrift

  John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Gains, Bears

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Ocean

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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• 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

  Real, Heart, Religion

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

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• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bad Ass, Drunk, Alcohol

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• If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Banking, Pounds, Problem

  The Economist, p. 11, February 13, 1982.

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• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gold, Standards, Relics

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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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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• Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Taxation, Regulation

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• If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Optimistic, Acting, Pits

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

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• The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Business, Future

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.268, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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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• When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Jobs, Done

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

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• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Sight, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.272, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Economics, Currency

  The Economic Consequences of the Peace ch. 6 (1919).

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, People, Would Be

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

  John Maynard Keynes

  Party, Past, Ideas

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

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• Economics is a very dangerous science.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Economics, Dangerous

  John Maynard Keynes (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Shapes, Wealth, Investment

  John Maynard Keynes (1950). “The applied theory of money”

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• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. MacKay, (p. 140), 1977.

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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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• 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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• It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, New Ideas, Hard

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• Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Hands, Order

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.140, Harriman House Limited

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Pregnancy, Intelligent, Mind

  "Essays in Biography" by John Maynard Keynes (Ch. 39), 1933.

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