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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen 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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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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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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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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