Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

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

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

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

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

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.