John Maynard Keynes Quotes

"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong."
-John Maynard Keynes

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."
-John Maynard Keynes in Taxes quotes.

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."
-John Maynard Keynes in Language quotes.

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
-John Maynard Keynes in Government quotes.

"Ideas shape the course of history."
-John Maynard Keynes in Ideas quotes.

"In the long run, we are all dead."
-John Maynard Keynes

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
-John Maynard Keynes

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
-John Maynard Keynes

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

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
-John Maynard Keynes

"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others."
-John Maynard Keynes

"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."
-John Maynard Keynes

"The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward."
-John Maynard Keynes

"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again."
-John Maynard Keynes

"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."
-John Maynard Keynes