Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOnce doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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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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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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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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I’d rather be vaguely 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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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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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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