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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOnce 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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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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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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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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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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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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