John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes

I managed King's College's endowment from bed each morning before breakfast. I helped design the post-war monetary order at Bretton Woods and wrote the General Theory between bouts of illness. When the facts change, I change my mind.

John Maynard Keynes
·1930·Cambridge, England

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 recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.