It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBut the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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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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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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