I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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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 destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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