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a first edition of Keynes's General Theory.
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I was coming back to New Haven on the train afterwards
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and I came across this quote.
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Keynes wrote that, "The idea of wholesale shifts
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is for various reasons impracticable and indeed undesirable.
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Most of those who attempt to sell too late and buy too late
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and do both too often, incurring heavy expenses
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and developing too unsettled and speculative state of mind."
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He's absolutely right.
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I wrote my first book--I already talked about that,
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Pioneering Portfolio Management--that deals with the challenges
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that face institutional investors.