Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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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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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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