I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Never 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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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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