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
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.
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.
newton type aloof
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
numbers telephones remember
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
decay world may
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
psychics physics breaking-down
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
france illusion economics
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.