The idea behind stamped money is sound.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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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 social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
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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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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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It is the long-term investor, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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