John Maynard Keynes Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Principles, Unattractive, Merit

• It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Independent, Eye

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Agreement

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

  John Maynard Keynes

  History, Mind, Opinion

  End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1

• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Average, America

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.142, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Strong, Roots, Differences

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.138, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Average, Essence

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