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John Maynard Keynes Quotes

«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.»
«The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.»
«There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world»
«The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.»
«I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past»
Author: John Maynard Keynes | Keywords: know nothing
«In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic»
«The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas»
«But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes | Keywords: misleading
«If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.»
«The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.»

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