When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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