It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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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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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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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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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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