Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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