When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBut 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 decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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