The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThis long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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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 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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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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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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