Ideas shape the course of history.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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