John Maynard Keynes Quotes about Business

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When the facts change, I change my mind.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

John Maynard Keynes

Business, Mind, Facts

"The Keynes Centenary". "The Economist" (Vol. 287, p. 19), 1983.

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

John Maynard Keynes

Fun, Business, Men

Attributed by Michael Albert, "Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy", (p. 128), 2000.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

John Maynard Keynes

Business, Yield, Psychology

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

John Maynard Keynes

Inspirational, Business, Past

"New Statesman and Nation" Magazine, July 15, 1933.

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

John Maynard Keynes

Money, Business, Future

John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.268, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

John Maynard Keynes

Funny, Business, Humor

"A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. MacKay, (p. 140), 1977.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

John Maynard Keynes

Business, Slumps, Found

Thorstein Veblen, Richard Henry Tawney, John Maynard Keynes (1990). “Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes”

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

John Maynard Keynes

Business, Temptation, Might

John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

John Maynard Keynes

Letting Go, Art, Business

John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”