Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

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

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

The spirit should never grow old.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.