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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in 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. 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. . . . 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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Government, Deception

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.141, Harriman House Limited

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• When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Information, Conclusion

  "The Keynes Centenary". "The Economist" (Vol. 287, p. 19), 1983.

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Mind, Doctrine

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• All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Purpose, Consumers, Satisfying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.41, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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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. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Psychology

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• The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Important, Done

  The End of Laissez-Faire pt. 4 (1926)

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• Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Doubt, Spread

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Morning, Rain

  "Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?" by Will Hutton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Finals, Prudent, Compromise

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ideas shape the course of history.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Carpe Diem

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 97), 1976.

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• There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing, World, Investment

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• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Fun, Business, Men

  Attributed by Michael Albert, "Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy", (p. 128), 2000.

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• The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Principles, Unattractive, Merit

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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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Liberty, Saving

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• The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

  John Maynard Keynes

  Beautiful, Thinking, Keys

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• The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Slumps, Investing, Austerity

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Loss, Long, Investing

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• It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Long, Good Things

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• The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease

  John Maynard Keynes

  Life, Mean, Reality

  Essays in Persuasion pt. 5 (1931)

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Profit, Enterprise, Thrift

  John Maynard Keynes (1930). “A treatise on money”

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• It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Thinking, Long

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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