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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 Keynes

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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Change Fact Inspirational Mindset Myself Open
When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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