The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.
– Richard DavenportHines
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- He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning. – Richard DavenportHines
- When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience. – Richard DavenportHines
- The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. – John Kenneth Galbraith
- His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too. – Suzanne Collins
- Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. – John Maynard Keynes
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. – Kenneth E Boulding
- There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics. – Peter J Boettke
- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. – Laurence J Peter
- Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say ‘on hand…’, then ‘but on the other… – Harry Truman
- Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
- Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public. – Amit Kalantri
- When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
- For Madison, on the other hand, -œa Public Debt is a Public curse,- and -œin a Representative Government greater than in any other.-26 – Joseph J Ellis
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? – John Maynard Keynes
- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. – John Maynard Keynes
- A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes
- The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – John Maynard Keynes
- By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. – John Maynard Keynes
- The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. – 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
- In the long run we are all dead. – John Maynard Keynes
- The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. – John Maynard Keynes
- There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard Feynman
- You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness. – Roopleen
- If hard work is the source of happiness, then we can conclude that the main job of procrastination is to delay that happiness for excuses to kill. – Israelmore Ayivor