I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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