Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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