Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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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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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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