It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESAn 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.
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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.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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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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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 forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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 conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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