The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

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

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

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