In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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This 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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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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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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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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