John Maynard Keynes Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946
Birthday: June 5
Death: April 21
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.
source: "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)
topic: Men, Practice, Long, Conventional Ways, Alas
