In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.