The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESExperience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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