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Speculation Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
- 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.
- The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of…
- Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a…
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- 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
- A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged… — Elisha Gray
- [Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as… — David Quammen
- Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was… — Albert Einstein
- The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon
- Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan