It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.