Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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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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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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