John Maynard Keynes

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."

"In economics, the majority is always wrong."

"The problem is not making more money but in having a better life."

"Newton was the greatest mind that ever existed, but even he could not read the Cambridge catalogue."

"To save is not to increase the amount of the national wealth, but to pile up mountains of consumer goods for future use."

"The same considerations which show that the system will not work at full employment also show how it will fail."

"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance."

"A conventional opinion is the right opinion, for the moment."

"Human nature desires simple explanations and simple duties."

"The problem of want is wholly a problem of coordination."

"I want to throw my hat in the air and cheer."

"Every action in economics is based on the expectation of some future condition."

"The economic system requires men to work themselves to exhaustion."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"Business people in the City have never wanted to understand the world they live in."

"The love of money as a means is important for every single thing we do."

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of everyone."

"The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment."

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

"The theory of aggregated demand is the most revolutionary doctrine that has ever been advanced."

"To enjoy living one should combine the study of the three non-exact sciences: of money, sex, and politics."

"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others."

"The beauty and mystery of art and science should not be destroyed by the commercial motive."

"A government should maintain a reserve fund for future emergencies."

"The right to property is a consequence, not a cause, of the process which produces wealth."

"Education is our business not because we love learning but because we love money."

"The practice of collective bargaining is one of the most important institutions of modern society."

"The present situation is abnormal and unjust and dangerous."

"In the modern world, the standard of life is primarily determined by the level of investment."