The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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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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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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