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

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The spirit should never grow old.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.