If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.