I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNever 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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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 expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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