I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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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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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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 is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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