There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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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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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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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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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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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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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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