The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESSuccessful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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