Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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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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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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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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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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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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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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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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