Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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In the long run we are all dead.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The 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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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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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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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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