An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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