Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESHow 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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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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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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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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