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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.

John Maynard Keynes

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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Difficult Necessary Pay Performance Service
It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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Hard Ideas Old Oneself
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Calculation Human Nature Result Temptation
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Change Finding Information Mindset
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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Forecast Investment Marketing Prediction Speculation
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Scientist Type Woman
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
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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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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Act Dangerous Feeling Hell Thinking Wrong
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Avoid Carry Intellectual Reward Tax

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