Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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 idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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