There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

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

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.