The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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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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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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