John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. - John Maynard Keynes

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. - John Maynard Keynes

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? - John Maynard Keynes

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. - John Maynard Keynes

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency - The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose. - John Maynard Keynes

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. - John Maynard Keynes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. - John Maynard Keynes

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. - John Maynard Keynes

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens. - John Maynard Keynes

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