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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMorally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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