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

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.