But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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