Chess is a cure for headaches.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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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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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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The 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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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.
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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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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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