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.

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

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 from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

In the long run, we are all dead.

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

In the long run we are all dead.

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

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

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.