(47 quotes found)
“The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.”
John Maynard Keynes
“He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind.”
“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind”
“It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens”
“Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
“Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory”
“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older”
“For at least another hundred years we must preĀtend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
“The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit”
“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.”