The idea behind stamped money is sound.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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 idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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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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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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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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