John Maynard
John Maynard
chess headache cures
Chess is a cure for headaches.
mean men law
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
funny business humor
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
fun business men
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
long gains bears
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
country jobs done
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.
mean blood opposites
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?
writing wind glory
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
information conclusion
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
money investing investment
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
banking pounds problem
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
succeed reputation failing
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
ideas evil dangerous
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
world investment irrational
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.