Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

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.

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.