I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.
Interpretation
This quote reflects an ongoing effort to alter and enhance one's core circumstances or beliefs.
John Maynard Keynes emphasizes the importance of actively working to refine and elevate one's foundational position in life, suggesting that personal growth and improvement are essential pursuits. This re-shaping process highlights the dynamic nature of individual circumstances and the necessity of adapting to achieve better outcomes.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.
Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.
I think thereβs a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
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