A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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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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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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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 markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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