Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMen will not always die quietly.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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