Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.