Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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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 engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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