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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Case Decision Reality Reason
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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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Day Save Work Yourself
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Construction Love Man Money Old Security
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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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

Death Philosophy Wasted Time
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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Envelope Future Ignorance Object Ourselves Skills Social
The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Animal Market Move Reason Spirit
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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Avoid Bank Blame Dangerous Himself Ruin Sound
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Crash Ourselves Time
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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Information Myself Position Thinking Yourself

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