It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWe will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any 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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