The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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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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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