A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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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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