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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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