John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing, Unexpected, Expected

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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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• Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Liberty, Saving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Ideas shape the course of history.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Carpe Diem

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 97), 1976.

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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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• It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Mind, Doctrine

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• When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Information, Conclusion

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

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• The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Income, Employment, Arbitrary

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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• It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Loss, Long, Investing

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• If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Morning, Rain

  "Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?" by Will Hutton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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