The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.