It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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