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.

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.

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

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

The spirit should never grow old.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.