The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWe will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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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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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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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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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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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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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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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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