John Maynard Keynes

"The wealthy today derive their importance from their power over employment."

"It is better to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally."

"All our decisions are dominated by the fear of the future."

"The rate of interest is not determined by the productivity of capital."

"Saving does not mean a wider and a higher standard of life for the community as a whole."

"The social atmosphere is permissive of practices which have always been practiced but which should be reformed."

"Competition is the best method of organizing economic activity."

"The theory of rational economic man is a dangerous oversimplification."

"I work better in this mental condition than I have ever done before."

"A rise in the general wage level increases rather than decreases employment."

"Our chief problem is not to discover what the government ought to do, but to see that it is done."

"The growth of population is limited by the means of subsistence."

"A study of the principles of economics does not require a very agile mind."

"The actual outcome depends on the amount of investment."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in economic policy."

"The problem of poverty in a wealthy society is shameful and solvable."

"Civilization requires not just power but the wise use of power."

"The velocity of money determines the level of employment."

"A gentleman is one who understands the principles of political economy."

"The state of long-term expectation is what determines the rate of investment."

"I cannot help but think that the future belongs to those who understand change."

"The problem is not the distribution of wealth but its creation."

"Good advice is something which the wise reject and the foolish accept."

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

"I am quite sure that before the year 2000 we shall have the leisure state."

"The outstanding characteristic of the modern world is its dynamic quality."

"To love money is to understand the world."

"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate effects but the longer term."

"I believe in the possibility of a sensible economic order."

"Our knowledge of the future is so slight that the only rational policy is to act with prudence."