The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI 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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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 expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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