Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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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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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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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 would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol – a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
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