When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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