The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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