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

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.