It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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