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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Believe Economics Fools Temporary
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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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Build Increase War Wealth
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Expensive Interest Public Stock Market
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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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
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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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
Men will not always die quietly.
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Death Man Quiet
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Conservatism Ideal Satisfaction
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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Belief Capital Goodness Greatness Man Wicket
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Age Employment Logic Lyrics Poetry
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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Forecast Investment Marketing Prediction Speculation
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics

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