There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMost men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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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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