Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMarkets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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I 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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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