If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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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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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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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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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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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