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Famous John Maynard Keynes Quotes
“It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.”
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
“The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”