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John Maynard Keynes Quotes

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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with it's neighbours as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are it's failure to provide for full employment and it's arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) Professor [Max] Planck of Berlin, the famous originator of the Quantum theory, once remarked to me that in early life he had thought of studying economics, but had found it too difficult!  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) I do not know which makes a man move conservative - to nothing but the present, or nothing but the past  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) ... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) 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 Quotes) The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) I can’t remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) 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 Quotes) The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds  (John Maynard Keynes Quotes) 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 Quotes)
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