"saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth - John Maynard Keynes

He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty - just
as he himself wrapt the discovery of the calculus in a cryptogram when he communicated with Leibniz.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.