“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
Source: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 3, p. 80
Context: But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John Maynard Keynes 122
British economist 1883–1946Related quotes
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
Source: The Diary of Anne Frank
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
"On the Study of Biology" (1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=All+truth,+in+the+long+run,+is+only+common+sense+clarified.+huxley+On+the+Study+of+Biology&source=bl&ots=87sGwjauQT&sig=pEmWoYQoN8HUVIVU6WSrnAAM8Dc&hl=en&ei=hFcnStrlM5H0tQPG-NBH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2
1870s
“It is in the long run that the corporation lives.”
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 15, Section IV, p. 172
Quoted and attributed to Graham in Warren Buffett's 1993 letter to investors. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1993.html
The statement is not found in any of Graham's publications or lecture transcripts, and when asked, Buffett could not provide a reference. https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77840
Disputed
“An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive in the long run.”
Source: Quantum gravity (2004), p. 4
“They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)