Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.