Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

I cannot abide being bored.

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.