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John Maynard Keynes (29)

Birth:	5th June, 1883
Death:	21st April, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist

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• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

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  My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.

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• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

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• Ideas shape the course of history.

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• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

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• Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

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  There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.

   

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

   

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• 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.

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• The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

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  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.

   

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• 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.

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• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

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• Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

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  Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

   

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• Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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• It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

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• In the long run we are all dead.

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

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