The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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