John Maynard
John Maynard
disgusting life love means money possession realities recognized somewhat
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 propens
love-is glory neighbor
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
love money men
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
compared gradual ideas interests power vastly
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas
change facts
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
current guide misleading run
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
fail reputation succeed teaches wisdom worldly
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally
ought wild words
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
education
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent
regarded
Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
owe problem
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
found harm promptly
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.
insightful investing
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
real digging-a-hole filled-up
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.