I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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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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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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