For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESFor my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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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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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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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