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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes

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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 engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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Believe Fair Investment Management Myself Right Time
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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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