If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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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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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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