John Maynard
John Maynard
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fail reputation succeed teaches wisdom worldly
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally
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
avarice fair foul gods hundred longer ourselves precaution useful
For at least another hundred years we must preÂtend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
lakes people promise
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
atheism information wells
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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.
banking pounds problem
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
chess headache cures
Chess is a cure for headaches.
humble people would-be
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
prudent finals compromise
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
economics
I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
zero supposing-that may
If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.
europe vengeance dare
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
newton type aloof
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.