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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

— John Maynard Keynes

More from John Maynard Keynes

  1. When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
  2. Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
  3. I don't really start until I get my proofs back from the printers. Then I can begin my serious writing.
  4. The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
  5. If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
  6. You can't push on a string.
  7. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
  8. Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

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  • error
  • accuracy
  • data
  • decision
  • forecast
  • precision

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