I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESObstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Capitalism 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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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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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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