The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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