In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.

Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.

Truth is inner harmony.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.