There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.