As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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