Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf 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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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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 astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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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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