It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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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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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons 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 boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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