(47 quotes found)
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong”
John Maynard Keynes
“In the long run, we're all dead.”
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
“There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world”
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
“Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent”
“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.”