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Speculation Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
- No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice…
- When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation…
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- The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon
- The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan
- This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer… — Madeleine Albright
- What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. — Samuel Butler
- Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of… — Lord Byron
- For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes… — Jackie Chan
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is… — William Cobbett
- It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation,… — Robin Meade