It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

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.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Planning your day before it begins, and adjusting your plan through the day, is one of the most important daily habits.

May our words blaze the way to our future

As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.