Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

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.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

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

Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright

Never give up in life. Learn to be humble, resilient, honest, wise and submissive and you'll be able to make a change better than anyone else.

I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.