Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

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

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.