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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESSuccessful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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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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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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