John Maynard Keynes Quotes About Finance

Quotes about: Finance

• 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.

• 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

• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Temptation, Might

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Letting Go, Art, Business

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

• Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Community, Liquid, Doctrine

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.139, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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