The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESCapitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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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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