Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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