We will not have any more crashes in our time.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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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 outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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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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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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