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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
When the facts change, I change my mind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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