We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

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

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.