The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESObstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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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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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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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 numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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