It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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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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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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