This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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 numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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