(48 quotes found)
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes
“There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world”
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong”
“In the long run, we're all dead.”
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
“Investing is the one sphere of life and activity where victory, security and success is always to the minority and never to the majority.”
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
