John Maynard Keynes Quotes

John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
English Economist
Born: Jun 5, 1883
Died: Apr 21, 1946
Being Capitalism Good Government Mind Nothing
Related authors: Alfred Marshall Dudley North E. F. Schumacher Nassau William Senior Nicholas Stern Thomas Malthus William Beveridge William Petty
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes
Good Capitalism Will Men Everyone Astounding Most Greatest Belief Things
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes
Finance Reward Carries Only Pursuit Still Intellectual Any Taxes Avoidance
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
Life Day Religion Heart Problem Behavior Problems Will Creation Relations Back Our Economic Arena Take Head Occupied Real Off Real Problems Human Where Far Human Relations Seat Belongs
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. John Maynard Keynes
Government Wealth Inflation Important Secretly Citizens Part Important Part Continuing Process
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Long Guide Run Long Run Misleading Dead Affairs Current
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. John Maynard Keynes
Man Conservative Past Nothing More Know Makes Which Present
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
Thoughts Words Wild Ought Little
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. John Maynard Keynes
Others Investing Anticipating Successful
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
Education Indifferent Incompetent Incomprehensible
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes
Success Beautiful War Capitalism Virtuous Ourselves Deliver Individualistic Goods Intelligent Decadent Hands Just After Which International Found
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. John Maynard Keynes
Work Government Think Despise Criminal Ends
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 Thought Would Would-Be Could Splendid Economists Get Manage Themselves Level Competent
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. John Maynard Keynes
Apt Opinion Discovering American Interested Average Believes
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. John Maynard Keynes
Sometimes Out Promptly Wrong Being Found Harm
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. John Maynard Keynes
Love Construction Money Men Creation Older Security More Most Get Less
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. John Maynard Keynes
Progress Possibility Would Foolish Contemplate Greater Still Far
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
Future Time Ignorance Dark Defeat Our Object Envelope Investment Forces Which Social Skilled Should
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. John Maynard Keynes
President He Wiser Like Looked Seated
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
Power National Excessive Part Ideas Powers Greater Errors Than May Autocracy Convention Either Bursting Played Disruptive Bonds

No more John Maynard Keynes quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to John Maynard Keynes.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025