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Attributed quotes — John Maynard Keynes

1883–1946 England

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My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.

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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Attributed Isms (2006)

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

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

Attributed A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1977)

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Attributed When Genius Failed (2000)

Capitalism is “the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.”

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I don't really start until I get my proofs back from the printers. Then I can begin my serious writing.

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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

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Ideas shape the course of history.

Attributed The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival (1976)

You can't push on a string.

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