The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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