Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.