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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
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
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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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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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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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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