The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

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

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

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

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

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