John Maynard
John Maynard
running long affair
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
animal wish different
Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.
purpose consumers productions
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
business mind facts
When the facts change, I change my mind.
ideas hard new-ideas
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
mind information new-information
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
believe men air
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back
arbitrary distribution-of-wealth faults
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
atheism information wells
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
ideas people forget
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
wise morning rain
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.
peace men benefits
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
mean reality hands
The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease
inspirational change lying
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.