The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.