The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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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 is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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