The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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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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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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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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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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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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