John Maynard Keynes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”

“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”

“Ideas shape the course of history.”

“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”

“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.”

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

“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.”

“I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”

“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”

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