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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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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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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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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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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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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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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
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