There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

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

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.