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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

John Maynard Keynes

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Finding Goodness Mistake Quick Yourself
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Drive Profit Thrift
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Better Choice Right Wrong
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Activity Country Development Job
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Expectation Inspirational Miracle Motivational
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Capital Deliver Goodness International Success Virtue War
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Believe Economics Fools Temporary
Chess is a cure for headaches.
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Chess Game Head Pain
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Accomplishment Blame Fact Master Obstinate Politician
The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Cycle Finding Permanent Remedy Right Trade
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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Goodness Gratitude Habitat Happiness Person Power Surrounding
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Crowd Division Employment Nation Provide Spoil
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Government Hide Mistake Money
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Ideas Money Sound Stamp
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Obstinate Penalty Reward
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Economy Humble Level Management Splendid
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Finding Hands Invisible Myself Solution Trying
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Anticipation Investment Success
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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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
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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Attractive General Ground Investment Opinion Principle
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World

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