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John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Best Quotes by John Maynard Keynes (Top 10)

  1. Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.
  2. When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
  3. Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
  4. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
  5. It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
  6. Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back
  7. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
  8. The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
  9. Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
  10. When the facts change, I change my mind.

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