If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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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.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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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