The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMarkets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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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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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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