The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWell, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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 key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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