John Maynard Keynes
"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."
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"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."
"لا يُحتمل رجل الأعمال إلا ما دامت مكاسبه تُعَدّ، تقريباً وبمعنى ما، متناسبة مع ما أسهمت به أنشطته في المجتمع."
John Maynard Keynes
"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"
"عندما تتغير معلوماتي، أُغيّر استنتاجاتي. فماذا تفعل أنت يا سيدي؟"
John Maynard Keynes
"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."
"إن الغاية الاجتماعية للاستثمار الماهر ينبغي أن تكون قهر قوى الزمان والجهل المظلمة التي تكتنف مستقبلنا."
John Maynard Keynes
"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."
"أهمية المال تنبع من كونه حلقة وصل بين الحاضر والمستقبل."
John Maynard Keynes
"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older."
"يُحبّ معظم الرجال المال والأمان أكثر، والإبداع والبناء أقلّ، كلّما تقدّموا في العمر."
John Maynard Keynes
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
"إن الحكومة، بعملية تضخم مستمرة، تستطيع مصادرة جزء هام من ثروة مواطنيها، خفية ودون أن يلحظ أحد."
John Maynard Keynes
"I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal."
"أعمل لحكومة أمقتها، ولغايات أراها إجرامية."
John Maynard Keynes
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
"التهرب الضريبي هو المسعى الفكري الوحيد الذي لا يزال يحمل في طياته مكافأة."
John Maynard Keynes
"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."
"لعل الأثر المزعزع للخصوبة القومية المفرطة قد كان له قسط أوفر في تحطيم أواصر التقاليد، مما لسلطان الأفكار أو هفوات الاستبداد."
John Maynard Keynes
"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."
"ليس ببعيدٍ اليوم الذي تتوارى فيه المشكلة الاقتصادية إلى حيث تنتمي، في المقعد الخلفي، لتُشغل أو تُعاد لتُشغل ساحة القلب والعقل بمشاكلنا الحقيقية: مشاكل الحياة والعلاقات الإنسانية، مشاكل الإبداع والسلوك والدين."
John Maynard Keynes
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
John Maynard Keynes
"In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."
John Maynard Keynes
"The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty."
John Maynard Keynes
"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."
John Maynard Keynes
"Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols."
John Maynard Keynes
"If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has."
John Maynard Keynes
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones."
John Maynard Keynes
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