Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.