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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.

John Maynard Keynes

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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Greatness Investment Loss Responsibility
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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Ideas Origin Party Politics
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
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Mistake Thinking Wild Word
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Land Reason Scarcity
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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Believe Economics Problem Revolution Thinking World Writing
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Disaster Investment Rational World
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Compromise Expectation Final Position Result
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself

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