Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESSuccessful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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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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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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